Before old age I took care to live well; in old age I take care to die well; but to die well is to die willingly.

This is the law of benefits between men; the one ought to forget at once what was given, and the other ought never to forget what he has received.

Great is he who enjoys his earthenware as if it were plate, and not less great is the man to whom all his plate is no more that earthenware.

There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn't just fall to a person's lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn't go to anyone other than oneself to find her.

He that does good to another does good also to himself.

Necessity is stronger than duty.

There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer.