It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for a good conscience, the next for health of mind, and then of body.

No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.

I can see clothes of silk, if materials that do not hide the body, nor even one's decency, can be called clothes. ... Wretched flocks of maids labor so that the adulteress may be visible through her thin dress, so that her husband has no more acquaintance than any outsider or foreigner with his wife's body.

A man who has taken your time recognises no debt; yet it is the one he can never repay.

What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing-to live in accord with his own nature.