What difference does it make, after all, what your position in life is if you dislike it yourself?

Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

He that makes himself famous by his eloquence, justice or arms illustrates his extraction, let it be never so mean; and gives inestimable reputation to his parents. We should never have heard of Sophroniscus, but for his son, Socrates; nor of Ariosto and Gryllus, if it had not been for Xenophon and Plato.

It is within the power of every man to live his life nobly, but of no man to live forever. Yet so many of us hope that life will go on forever, and so few aspire to live nobly.

What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?

Drunkenness doesn't create vices, but it brings them to the fore.

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.