Water and our necessary food are the only things that wise men must fight for.

Friendship requires a steady, constant, and unchangeable character, a person that is uniform in his intimacy.

Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors.

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.

For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.

There is no stronger test of a person's character than power and authority, exciting as they do every passion, and discovering every latent vice.

Barba non facit philosophum