Everything in art is but a copy of nature.

Philosophy's power to blunt all the blows of circumstance is beyond belief.

It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.

Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.

To live is not a blessing, but to live well.

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.

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