If God adds another day to our life, let us receive it gladly.

We are wrong in looking forward to death: in great measure it's past already.

Haste trips up its own heels, fetters and stops itself.

He that makes himself famous by his eloquence, justice or arms illustrates his extraction, let it be never so mean; and gives inestimable reputation to his parents. We should never have heard of Sophroniscus, but for his son, Socrates; nor of Ariosto and Gryllus, if it had not been for Xenophon and Plato.

Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?

Fine conduct is always spontaneous.

If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favorable to him. Ignoranti quem portum petat, nullus suus ventus est.