Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.