Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.

The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.

We all sorely complain of the shortness of time, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our lives are either spent in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do. We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end of them.

I will have a care of being a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the heaviest of all servitudes; and this may be done by moderate desires.

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

Wisdom teaches us to do, as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a colour.

Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art.