Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart.

Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.

The pleasures of the palate deal with us like Egyptian thieves who strangle those whom they embrace.

I am telling you to be a slow-speaking person.

There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.

You should keep on learning as long as there is something you do not know.

Retirement without the love of letters is a living burial.