It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one.
He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he is ungrateful who makes no return for it; most ungrateful of all is he who forgets it.
Whatever begins, also ends.
It is the characteristic of a weak and diseased mind to fear the unfamiliar.
Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.
Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.