Forgive that you may be forgiven.

Finally, everybody agrees that no one pursuit can be successfully followed by a man who is preoccupied with many things-eloquence cannot, nor the liberal studies-since the mind, when distracted, takes in nothing very deeply, but rejects everything that is, as it were, crammed into it. There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living: there is nothing that is harder to learn.

Let us cherish and love old age; for it is full of pleasure, if you know how to use it. The best morsel is reserved for last.

When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.

We learn not for life but for the debating-room.

There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.

Refuse to let the thought of death bother you: nothing is grim when we have escaped that fear.