No one who is in a state of fear or sorrow or tension is free, but whosoever is delivered from sorrows or fears or anxieties is at the same time delivered from servitude.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

Against specious appearances we must set clear convictions, bright and ready for use. When death appears as an evil, we ought immediately to remember that evils are things to be avoided, but death is inevitable.

I am always content with what happens; for I know that what God chooses is better than what I choose.

Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

In a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this kind is the real cause of our doing or not doing any action, but our inward opinions and principles.