No one can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it.

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.

The worst evil of all is to leave the ranks of the living before one dies.

No one can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it.

Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if the devil himself gives better wages, they soon change their party.

Plato once wanted to punish one of his slaves and asked his nephew to do the actual whipping for he himself did not own his anger.

The whole discord of this world consists in discords.