Fight against yourself, recover yourself to decency, to modesty, to freedom. And, in the first place, condemn your actions; but when you have condemned them, do not despair of yourself. For both ruin and recovery are from within.
To a longer and worse life, a shorter and better is by all means to be preferred.
We ought to flee the friendship of the wicked, and the enmity of the good.
Fortune is an evil chain to the body, and vice to the soul.
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
What disturbs people's minds are not events but their judgments on events.