Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.
Epicurus says that you should rather have regard to the company with whom you eat and drink, than to what you eat and drink.
Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them.
If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.