People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

Seeing too much to deny and too little to be sure, I am in a state to be pitied.

Don't try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.

Each one is all in all to himself; for being dead, all is dead to him.

Those who profess contempt for men, and put them on a level with beasts, yet wish to be admired and believed by men, and contradict themselves by their own feelings--their nature, which is stronger than all, convincing them of the greatness of man more forcibly than reason convinces them of his baseness.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

The Stoics say, "Retire within yourselves; it is there you will find your rest." And that is not true. Others say, "Go out of yourselves; seek happiness in amusement." And this is not true. Illness comes. Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.