Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.

No one can wear a mask for very long.

If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.

Unjust rule does not last forever.

Let him who has given a favor be silent; let he who has received it tell it.

There is nothing which persevering effort and unceasing and diligent care cannot accomplish.

There is this blessing, that while life has but one entrance, it has exits innumerable, and as I choose the house in which I live, the ship in which I will sail, so will I choose the time and manner of my death.