An age builds up cities: an hour destroys them.
What is required is not a lot words, but effectual ones.
Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.
The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.
Ponder for a long time whether you shall admit a given person to your friendship; but when you have decided to admit him, welcome him with all your heart and soul. Speak as boldly with him as with yourself.
Not a soul takes thought how well he may live- only how long: yet a good life might be everybody's, a long one can be nobody's.