As the world leads we follow.
Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.
No book can be so good, as to be profitable when negligently read.
It is sometimes pleasant even to act like a madman.
Epicurus says that you should rather have regard to the company with whom you eat and drink, than to what you eat and drink.
The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.