Expecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow, it loses today.

Refuse to let the thought of death bother you: nothing is grim when we have escaped that fear.

A man's ability cannot possibly be of one sort and his soul of another. If his soul be well-ordered, serious and restrained, his ability also is sound and sober. Conversely, when the one degenerates, the other is contaminated.

We are members of one great body. Nature planted in us a mutual love, and fitted us for a social life. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole.

The arts are the servant; wisdom its master.

You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.

There's no delight in owning anything unshared.