Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?

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

Virtue consisteth of three parts,--temperance, fortitude, and justice.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

A beneficent person is like a fountain watering the earth, and spreading fertility; it is, therefore, more delightful to give than to receive.

For a wrongdoer to be undetected is difficult; and for him to have confidence that his concealment will continue is impossible.

A world is a circumscribed portion of sky... it is a piece cut off from the infinite.