Not every story has a happy ending, but that doesn’t mean it’s not worth telling.

Realize that true happiness lies within you.

Dancing is as old as love.

The only business of the historian is to relate things exactly as they are: this he can never do as long as he is afraid

Poverty persuades a man to do and suffer everything that he may escape from it.

I was still more concerned (a preference which you may be far from resenting) to strike a blow for Epicurus, that great man whose holiness and divinity of nature were not shams, who alone had and imparted true insight into the good, and who brought deliverance to all that consorted with him.

Avarice is a cursed vice: offer a man enough gold, and he will part with his own small hoard of food, however great his hunger.