Fortune's not content with knocking a man down; she sends him spinning head over heels, crash upon crash.

To lose a friend is the greatest of all evils, but endeavour rather to rejoice that you possessed him than to mourn his loss.

Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)

The best way to do good to ourselves is to do it to others; the right way to gather is to scatter.

It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.

Nature does not reveal all her secrets at once. We imagine we are initiated in her mysteries: we are, as yet, but hanging around her outer courts.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.