Time which diminishes all things increases understanding for the aging.

It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.

So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history.

Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to.

For man is a plant, not fixed in the earth, nor immovable, but heavenly, whose head, rising as it were from a root upwards, is turned towards heaven.

For he who gives no fuel to fire puts it out, and likewise he who does not in the beginning nurse his wrath and does not puff himself up with anger takes precautions against it and destroys it.

Wise men are able to make a fitting use even of their enmities.