No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its roots more securely; the fragile trees are those that have grown in a sunny valley.

You talk one way, you live another.

There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.

The wise man lives as long as he should, not just as long as he likes.

As Lucretius says: 'Thus ever from himself doth each man flee.' But what does he gain if he does not escape from himself? He ever follows himself and weighs upon himself as his own most burdensome companion. And so we ought to understand that what we struggle with is the fault, not of the places, but of ourselves

Revenge is an inhuman word.

Drunkenness is nothing else but a voluntary madness.