No living being is held by anything so strongly as its own needs.
Contentment, as it is a short road and pleasant, has great delight and little trouble.
Don't regard what anyone says of you, for this, after all, is no concern of yours.
Books are the training weights of the mind.
-….when things seem to have reached that stage, merely say “I won’t play any longer”, and take your departure; but if you stay, stop lamenting.
Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time, nor does it take away the freedom of speech which proceeds from justice; but it gives to us the knowledge of what is just and lawful, separating from them the unjust and refuting them.