The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.

Death: There's nothing bad about it at all except the thing that comes before it-the fear of it.

Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium

The worse a person is the less he feels it.

While we wait for life, life passes

Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.

Whoever has nothing to hope, let him despair of nothing.