Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery, by doubling our joys, and dividing our grief.
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.
A man of courage is also full of faith.
The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.
The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?
We are not born only for ourselves.
The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.
Politicians are not born; they are excreted.
Dum Spiro, spero: As long as I breathe, I hope.
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.
a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
No one is so old as to think that he cannot live one more year.
The distinguishing property of man is to search for and to follow after truth.