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

It is impossible that happiness, and yearning for what is not present, should ever be united.

Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Whoever wants to be free, therefore, let him not want or avoid anything that is up to others. Otherwise he will necessarily be a slave.

Whatever you would make habitual, practice it; and if you would not make a thing habitual, do not practice it, but accustom yourself to something else.

We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.