Let me therefore live as if every moment were to be my last.

If wisdom were offered me with the proviso that I should keep it shut up and refrain from declaring it, I should refuse. There's no delight in owning anything unshared.

Dignity increases more easily than it begins.

Small sorrows speak great ones are silent.

Virtue is shut out from no one; she is open to all, accepts all, invites all, gentlemen, freedmen, slaves, kings, and exiles; she selects neither house nor fortune; she is satisfied with a human being without adjuncts.

Nothing is more disgraceful than that an old man should have nothing to show to prove that he has lived long, except his years.

But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!