The anger of those in authority is always weighty.

Man is a social animal.

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

As Lucretius says: 'Thus ever from himself doth each man flee.' But what does he gain if he does not escape from himself? He ever follows himself and weighs upon himself as his own most burdensome companion. And so we ought to understand that what we struggle with is the fault, not of the places, but of ourselves

As gratitude is a necessary, and a glorious virtue, so also it is an obvious, a cheap, and an easy one; so obvious that wherever there is life there is a place for it; so cheap, that the covetous man may be gratified without expense, and so easy that the sluggard may be so likewise without labor.

The best way to do good to ourselves is to do it to others; the right way to gather is to scatter.

What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.