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.

The flesh believes that pleasure is limitless and that it requires unlimited time; but the mind, understanding the end and limit of the flesh and ridding itself of fears of the future, secures a complete life and has no longer any need for unlimited time.

The magnitude of pleasure reaches its limit in the removal of all pain. When such pleasure is present, so long as it is uninterrupted, there is no pain either of body or of mind or of both together.

The honor paid to a wise man is a great good for those who honor him.

Nothing is sufficient for the person who finds sufficiency too little

Men are so thoughtless, nay, so mad, that some, through fear of death, force themselves to die.

The mind that is much elevated and insolent with prosperity, and cast down with adversity, is generally abject and base.