Philosophy alone makes the mind invincible, and places us out of the reach of fortune, so that all her arrows fall short of us.
Drunkenness is nothing but a self-induced state of insanity.
Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.
Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
Let me therefore live as if every moment were to be my last.
Money has never yet made anyone rich.