If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

Envy is the ulcer of the soul.

There is no learning without remembering.

Happiness is unrepented pleasure.

Better to do a little well, then a great deal badly.

How can you call a man free when his pleasures rule over him.

In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.