He will live ill who does not know how to die well.

The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.

It is well to be born either a king or a fool.

We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!

That comes too late that comes for the asking.

That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our needs, has abandoned the field; it has now come to this -- that to want only what is enough is a sign both of boorishness and of utter destitution.

How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.