Let us cherish and love old age; for it is full of pleasure, if you know how to use it. The best morsel is reserved for last.

Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.

The state of that man's mind who feels too intense an interest as to future events, must be most deplorable.

It is a common thing to screw up justice to the pitch of an injury. A man may be over-righteous, and why not over-grateful, too? There is a mischievous excess that borders so close upon ingratitude that it is no easy matter to distinguish the one from the other; but, in regard that there is good-will in the bottom of it, however distempered; for it is effectually but kindness out of the wits.

What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?

We should have a bond of sympathy for all sentient beings, knowing that only the depraved and base take pleasure in the sight of blood and suffering.

True wisdom consists in not departing from nature and in molding our conduct according to her laws and model.