Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them.

There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

Two things, well considered, would prevent many quarrels: first, to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms, rather than things; and, secondly, to examine whether that on which we differ is worth contending about.

Some are cursed with the fullness of satiety; and how can they bear the ills of life when its very pleasures fatigue them?