To my great-grandfather I owed the advice to dispense with the education of the schools and have good masters at home instead - and to realize that no expense should be grudged for this purpose

Fortune gives many too much, but none enough

The flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is

Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst

You have friends, Paullus, just like your pictures and vases, all antique originals

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present

Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion

All is ephemeral, fame and the famous as well

Nothing is evil which is according to nature

A wrong - doer is often a man that has left something undone, not always he that has done something