You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Freedom is the greatest fruit of self sufficiency.

Fortune seldom troubles the wise man. Reason has controlled his greatest and most important affairs, controls them throughout his life, and will continue to control them.

Justice is never anything in itself, but in the dealings of men with one another in any place whatever and at any time. It is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.

We begin every act of choice and avoidance from pleasure, and it is to pleasure that we return using our experience of pleasure as the criterion of every good thing.

If death causes you no pain when you're dead, it is foolish to allow the fear of it to cause you pain now.

We cannot live pleasantly without living wisely and nobly and righteously.