Wise do not believe that anyone does wrong willingly but only unwillingly out of ignorance.
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
The shortest and surest way to live with honor in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be.
Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.