Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear. [They are the two sides of a coin, so learning how to manage fear through learning, understanding, rationality, controlled imagination, preparation, mental focus (including distraction) and a gratitude attitude is very helpful.]

Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.

Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.

If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune.

Indulge yourself in pleasures only in so far as they are necessary for the preservation of health.

What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.

A man is as much affected pleasurably or painfully by the image of a thing past or future as by the image of a thing present.