The arts are the servant; wisdom its master.

This is the law of benefits between men; the one ought to forget at once what was given, and the other ought never to forget what he has received.

Mercy often inflicts death.

There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.

There is no genius free from some tincture of madness

Cato, being scurrilously treated by a low and vicious fellow, quietly said to him, "A contest between us is very unequal, for thou canst bear ill language with ease, and return it with pleasure; but to me it is unusual to hear, and disagreeable to speak it." There are none more abusive to others than they that lie most open to it themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow.

The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.