Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.

You can be invincible, if you enter into no contest in which it is not in your power to conquer.

These reasonings are unconnected: "I am richer than you, therefore I am better"; "I am more eloquent than you, therefore I am better." The connection is rather this: "I am richer than you, therefore my property is greater than yours;" "I am more eloquent than you, therefore my style is better than yours." But you, after all, are neither property nor style.

These are the signs of a wise man: to reprove nobody, to praise nobody, to blame nobody, nor even to speak of himself or his own merits.

We all carry the seeds of greatness within us, but we need an image as a point of focus in order that they may sprout.

To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable; but everything reasonable may be supported.