The fool, with all his other faults, has this also, he is always getting ready to live.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Do everything like someone is gazing at you.

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

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.

Death is meaningless to the living because they are living, and meaningless to the dead… because they are dead.

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.