No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory perusal.

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

I will have a care of being a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the heaviest of all servitudes; and this may be done by moderate desires.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes.

Democracy is more cruel than wars or tyrants.

Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man.

Man is a social animal.