It is never too late to learn what is always necessary to know.

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.

Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by action. If this be true, not only do the doctrines of wisdom help us but the precepts also, which check and banish our emotions by a sort of official decree.

A man who has taken your time recognises no debt; yet it is the one he can never repay.

There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.