Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils.

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

If any man think it a small matter, or of mean concernment, to bridle his tongue, he is much mistaken; for it is a point to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.

I see the cure is not worth the pain.

The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.

Where the lion's skin will not reach, you must patch it out with the fox's.

As small letters hurt the sight, so do small matters him that is too much intent upon them; they vex and stir up anger, which begets an evil habit in him in reference to greater affairs.