If you declare that you are naturally designed for such a diet, then first kill for yourself what you want to eat. Do it, however, only through your own resources, unaided by cleaver or cudgel or any kind of ax

It is the usual consolation of the envious, if they cannot maintain their superiority, to represent those by whom they are surpassed as inferior to some one else.

There is no perfecter endowment in man than political virtue.

A healer of others, himself diseased.

Time which diminishes all things increases understanding for the aging.

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

Barba non facit philosophum