In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

The process may seem strange and yet it is very true. I did not so much gain the knowledge of things by the words, as words by the experience I had of things.

Were it only to learn benevolence to humankind, we should be merciful to other creatures.

Nature and wisdom never are at strife.

Learn to be pleased with everything, with wealth so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.

It is the admirer of himself, and not the admirer of virtue, that thinks himself superior to others.

For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.