Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.
It is well to be born either a king or a fool.
How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us!
Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.
The mind does not easily unlearn what it has been long in learning.