The friends of the unfortunate live a long way off.

It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.

We are more wicked together than separately. If you are forced to be in a crowd, then most of all you should withdraw into yourself.

Human nature is so constituted that insults sink deeper than kindnesses; the remembrance of the latter soon passes away, while that of the former is treasured in the memory.

Those alone are wise who know how to love.

It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.

A young man respects and looks up to his teachers.