Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle

Old age: A great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold, you may have escaped, not from one master but from many.

The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet

The passionate are like men standing on their heads; they see all things the wrong way

We are twice armed if we fight with faith

They certainly give very strange names to diseases

Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance

Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods

The beginning is the most important part of the work

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors

Life must be lived as play