Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness, even while receiving it.
There is no genius without a mixture of madness.
Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.
It is the superfluous things for which men sweat.
Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by action. If this be true, not only do the doctrines of wisdom help us but the precepts also, which check and banish our emotions by a sort of official decree.