Let us never adopt the maxim, Rather lose our friend than our jest.

For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.

If you direct your whole thought to work itself, none of the things which invade eyes or ears will reach the mind.

One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.

Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.

Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.

Suffering itself does less afflict the senses than the apprehension of suffering.