Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.

He who comes to a conclusion when the other side is unheard, may have been just in his conclusion, but yet has not been just in his conduct.

Just where death is expecting you is something we cannot know; so, for your part, expect him everywhere.

There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.

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

It’s in the very trickery that it pleases me. But show me how the trick is done, and I have lost my interest therein.

Epicurus says that you should rather have regard to the company with whom you eat and drink, than to what you eat and drink.