The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.
Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
The wise man’s home is the universe.
Men have made an idol of luck as an excuse for their own thoughtlessness.