Every place is safe to him who lives with justice.
Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.
Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them.
Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.
To the rational being only the irrational is unendurable, but the rational is endurable.
When men are unhappy, they do not imagine they can ever cease to be so; and when some calamity has fallen on them, they do not see how they can get rid of it. Nevertheless, both arrive; and the gods have ordered it so, in the end men seek it from the gods