Bear in mind that you commit a crime by injuring even a wicked brother.

Of all the felicities, the most charming is that of a firm and gentle friendship. It sweetens all our cares, dispels our sorrows, and counsels us in all extremities. Nay, if there were no other comfort in it than the pare exercise of so generous a virtue, even for that single reason a man would not be without it; it is a sovereign antidote against all calamities - even against the fear of death itself.

We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them.

We are more easily led part by part to an understanding of the whole. -Facilius per partes in cognitionem totius adducimur

The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves.

Great is he who enjoys his earthenware as if it were plate, and not less great is the man to whom all his plate is no more that earthenware.

It is only luxury and avarice that make poverty grievous to us; for it is a very small matter that does our business, and when we have provided against cold, hunger, and thirst, all the rest is but vanity and excess.