The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.

Reasons for anxiety will never be lacking, whether born of prosperity or of wretchedness; life pushes on in a succession of engrossments. We shall always pray for leisure.

This is the difference between us Romans and the Etruscans: We believe that lightning is caused by clouds colliding, whereas they believe that clouds collide in order to create lightning. Since they attribute everything to gods, they are led to believe not that events have a meaning because they have happened, but that they happen in order to express a meaning.

The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution.

People pay the doctor for his trouble; for his kindness they still remain in his debt.