Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate.

The poisons are our principal medicines, which kill the disease and save the life.

A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

Let the stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.

Debt, grinding debt, whose iron face the widow, the orphan, and the sons of genius fear and hate; debt, which consumes so much time, which so cripples and disheartens a great spirit with cares that seem so base, is a preceptor whose lessons cannot be foregone, and is needed most by those who suffer from it most.

Valor consists in the power of self recovery.