Instead of using medicine, better fast today.

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.

The ripeness of adolescence is prodigal in pleasures, skittish, and in need of a bridle.

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.

Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

Forgetfulness transforms every occurrence into a non-occurrence.