We must be afraid of neither poverty nor exile nor imprisonment; of fear itself only should we be afraid.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom. Only the educated are free.

You will do the greatest service to the state if you shall raise, not the roofs of the houses, but the souls of the citizens: for it is better that great souls should dwell in small houses rather than for mean slaves to lurk in great houses.

You lose only the things you have

If you have assumed a character above your strength, you have both acted in this matter in an unbecoming way, and you have neglected that which you might have fulfilled.

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.