Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.

When our friends are present we ought to treat them well; and when they are absent, to speak of them well.

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

At this time is freedom anything but the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

To make anything a habit, do it; to not make it a habit, do not do it; to unmake a habit, do something else in place of it.

Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!

I am not eternity, but a man; a part of the whole, as an hour is of the day.