It's the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.

The sovereign good of man is a mind that subjects all things to itself and is itself subject to nothing; such a man's pleasures are modest and reserved, and it may be a question whether he goes to heaven, or heaven comes to him; for a good man is influenced by God Himself, and has a kind of divinity within him.

Epicurus says that you should rather have regard to the company with whom you eat and drink, than to what you eat and drink.

There is nothing the wise man does reluctantly.

To err is human. To repeat error is of the Devil.

He who is everywhere is nowhere.

That which takes effect by chance is not an art.