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

So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.

Nature does not turn out her work according to a single pattern; she prides herself upon her power of variation.

It is a tedious thing to be always beginning life; they live badly who always begin to live.

Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.

Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.

No emotion falls into dislike so readily as sorrow.