Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.

The mind should be allowed some relaxation, that it may return to its work all the better for the rest.

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.

As Lucretius says: 'Thus ever from himself doth each man flee.' But what does he gain if he does not escape from himself? He ever follows himself and weighs upon himself as his own most burdensome companion. And so we ought to understand that what we struggle with is the fault, not of the places, but of ourselves

A man's ability cannot possibly be of one sort and his soul of another. If his soul be well-ordered, serious and restrained, his ability also is sound and sober. Conversely, when the one degenerates, the other is contaminated.

Economy is in itself a great source of revenue.

He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when it is in his power to do so.