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.

A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.

The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.

The language of truth is unvarnished enough.

We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them.

After death there is nothing.

Time is the one thing that is given to everyone in equal measure.