The flourishing life cannot be achieved until we moderate our desires and see how superficial and fleeting they are.
Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
We are not to lead events, but to follow them.
What is death? A scary mask. Take it off-see, it doesn't bite.
Don't regard what anyone says of you, for this, after all, is no concern of yours.
Fortune is an evil chain to the body, and vice to the soul.