As long as you live, learn how to live.

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.

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

A disease is farther on the road to being cured when it breaks forth from concealment and manifests its power.

Dignity increases more easily than it begins.

Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.

As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.