Without confidence, there is no friendship.

Justice has no independent existence; it results from mutual contracts, and establishes itself wherever there is a mutual engagement to guard against doing or sustaining mutual injury.

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

Against other things it is possible to obtain security, but when it comes to death we human beings all live in an unwalled city.

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.

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.

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.