So live with an inferior as you would wish a superior to live with you.

The man who spends his time choosing one resort after another in a hunt for peace and quiet will in every place he visits find something to prevent him from relaxing.

There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.

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.

Those griefs burn most which gall in secret.

He that makes himself famous by his eloquence, justice or arms illustrates his extraction, let it be never so mean; and gives inestimable reputation to his parents. We should never have heard of Sophroniscus, but for his son, Socrates; nor of Ariosto and Gryllus, if it had not been for Xenophon and Plato.

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.