Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse.

A friend always loves, but he who loves is not always a friend.

If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.

He is greedy of life who is not willing to die when the world is perishing around him.

To things which you bear with impatience you should accustom yourself, and, by habit you will bear them well.

Associate with people who are likely to improve you.

He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when it is in his power to do so.