Two principles we should always have ready — that there is nothing good or evil save in the will; and that we are not to lead events, but to follow them.

It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance

I am always content with what happens; for I know that what God chooses is better than what I choose.

When men are unhappy, they do not imagine they can ever cease to be so; and when some calamity has fallen on them, they do not see how they can get rid of it. Nevertheless, both arrive; and the gods have ordered it so, in the end men seek it from the gods

Men are disturbed not by the things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.

It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintains it and works it out in his life.

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.