“Ritirati in te stesso per quanto puoi; frequenta le persone che possono renderti migliore e accogli quelli che puoi rendere migliori.”

“Quanto potius, deorum opera celebrare quam Philippi aut Alexandri latrocinia...”

“Per aspera ad Astra.”

“No good thing renders its possessor happy, unless his mind is reconciled to the possibility of loss; nothing, however, is lost with less discomfort than that which, when lost, cannot be missed.”

“When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.”

“You ask what is the proper limit to a person's wealth? First, having what is essential, and second, having what is enough.”

“You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much time has already gone by you take no heed. You squander time as if you drew from a full and abundant supply, though all the while that day which you bestow on some person or thing is perhaps your last.”