The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.

You find in some a sort of graceless modesty, that makes them ashamed to requite an obligation.

No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another, if thou wishest to live for thyself.

True friends are the whole world to one another; and he that is a friend to himself is also a friend to mankind. Even in my studies the greatest delight I take is of imparting it to others; for there is no relish to me in the possessing of anything without a partner.

The velocity with which time flies is infinite, as is most apparent to those who look back.

You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.

Those things which make the infernal regions terrible, the darkness, the prison, the river of flaming fire, the judgment seat, are all a fable, with which the poets amuse themselves, and by them agitate us with vain terrors.