There is no evil without its compensation.
Philosophy is good advice, and no one gives good advice at the top of his lungs.
What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.
Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
Those things which make the infernal regions terrible, the darkness, the prison, the river of flaming fire, the judgment seat, are all a fable, with which the poets amuse themselves, and by them agitate us with vain terrors.