Where I am death is not, where death is I am not.

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.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

A strict belief in fate is the worst of slavery, imposing upon our necks an everlasting lord and tyrant, whom we are to stand in awe of night and day.

Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.

Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being harmed.