Home joys are blessed of heaven.

A friend always loves, but he who loves is not always a friend.

When you die, it will not be because you are sick, but because you were alive.

Nothing will ever please me, no matter how excellent or beneficial, if I must retain the knowledge of it to myself. . . . . . No good thing is pleasant to possess, without friends to share it.

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.

He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.