Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any; but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own.
Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity.
What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.
It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.
Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.
One's roused by this, another finds that fit: Each loves the play for what he brings to it.
The best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm it excites.
Change amuses the mind, but rarely profits.
A collection of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with the former in fit places, and to recollect the latter on proper occasions