Let silence be your general rule; or say only what is necessary and in few words.

The cause of all human evils is the not being able to apply general principles to special cases.

Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

The universe is but one great city, full of beloved ones, divine and human, by nature endeared to each other.

Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose? Nothing else. Tell me then, you men, do you wish to live in error? We do not. No one who lives in error is free. Do you wish to live in fear? Do you wish to live in sorrow? Do you wish to live in tension? By no means. No one who is in a state of fear or sorrow or tension is free, but whoever is delivered from sorrows or fears or anxieties, he is at the same time also delivered from servitude.

We ought to flee the friendship of the wicked, and the enmity of the good.