Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world.

Nor is drunkenness censured for anything so much as its intemperate and endless talk.

We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.

Gout is not relieved by a fine shoe nor a hangnail by a costly ring nor migraine by a tiara.

Seeing the lightest and gayest purple was then most in fashion, he would always wear that which was the nearest black; and he would often go out of doors, after his morning meal, without either shoes or tunic; not that he sought vain-glory from such novelties, but he would accustom himself to be ashamed only of what deserves shame, and to despise all other sorts of disgrace.

Courage and wisdom are, indeed, rarities amongst men, but of all that is good, a just man it would seem is the most scarce.

The authors of great evils know best how to remove them.