A friend is, as it were, a second self.
I never admired another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.
A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
To the sick, while there is life there is hope.
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of wha. I do not know.
No man was ever great without a touch of divine afflatus.
When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.
We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory.
The beauty of the world and the orderly arrangement of everything celestial makes us confess that there is an excellent and eternal nature, which ought to be worshiped and admired by all mankind.
I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war.
The precept, "Know yourself," was not solely intended to obviate the pride of mankind; but likewise that we might understand our own worth.
There is something pleasurable in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.
O temporal O mores! O what times! what morals!
For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.
As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
My dear Scipio and Laelius. Men, of course, who have no resources in themselves for securing a good and happy life find every age burdensome. But those who look for all happiness from within can never think anything bad which Nature makes inevitable.
For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's [children's] minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.
