For the wise man, every day is a festival.

The same intelligence is required to marshal an army in battle and to order a good dinner. The first must be as formidable as possible, the second as pleasant as possible, to the participants.

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.

In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Neither blame or praise yourself.

If Nature be not improved by instruction, it is blind; if instruction be not assisted by Nature, it is maimed; and if exercise fail of the assistance of both, it is imperfect.