Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

The wish for healing has always been half of health.

Before old age I took care to live well; in old age I take care to die well; but to die well is to die willingly.

Remember, not one penny can we take with us into the unknown land.

The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it

He that makes himself famous by his eloquence, justice or arms illustrates his extraction, let it be never so mean; and gives inestimable reputation to his parents. We should never have heard of Sophroniscus, but for his son, Socrates; nor of Ariosto and Gryllus, if it had not been for Xenophon and Plato.

There is no satisfaction in any good without a companion.