Anger, though concealed, is betrayed by the countenance. ?That anger is not warrantable which hath seen two suns.

Upon occasion we should go as far as intoxication.... Drink washes cares away, stirs the mind from its lowest depths.... But in liberty moderation is wholesome, and so it is in wine.... We ought not indulge too often, for fear the mind contract a bad habit, yet it is right to draw it toward elation and release and to banish dull sobriety for a little.

A foolishness is inflicted with a hatred of itself.

Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.

Let me therefore live as if every moment were to be my last.

A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.