The world, which took six days to make, is likely to take us six thousand years to make out.
By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also.
To me avarice seems not so much a vice as a deplorable piece of madness.
Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich.
Should your riches increase, let your mind keep pace with them.
What song the Syrens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women, though puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture.