As gratitude is a necessary, and a glorious virtue, so also it is an obvious, a cheap, and an easy one; so obvious that wherever there is life there is a place for it; so cheap, that the covetous man may be gratified without expense, and so easy that the sluggard may be so likewise without labor.

Away with the world's opinion of you-it's always unsettled and divided.

Cato, being scurrilously treated by a low and vicious fellow, quietly said to him, "A contest between us is very unequal, for thou canst bear ill language with ease, and return it with pleasure; but to me it is unusual to hear, and disagreeable to speak it." There are none more abusive to others than they that lie most open to it themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow.

Life is short and art is long.

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.