If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. 
A man of courage is also full of faith.
Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
While there's life, there's hope.
The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
A home without books is a body without soul.
Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.
Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.
The sinews of war are infinite money.
The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.
Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.
What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.