The young man must store up, the old man must use.

Epicurus says, "gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it." And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.

Pleasure dies at the very moment when it charms us most.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

No one can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it.

Nothing is so false as human life, nothing so treacherous. God knows no one would have accepted it as a gift, if it had not been given without our knowledge.

What is true belongs to me!