Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man.
So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.
The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort.
Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy.
Nothing is more disgraceful than that an old man should have nothing to show to prove that he has lived long, except his years.
We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.