It is in changing that things find purpose.
If you do not hope, you will not win that which is not hoped for, since it is unattainable and inaccessible.
It is harder to fight pleasure than to fight emotion.
Those who approach life like a child playing a game, moving and pushing pieces, possess the power of kings.
Wisdom consists in speaking and acting the truth.
The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.