The best sort of revenue is not to be like him who did the injury.

How ridiculous not to flee from one's own wickedness, which is possible, yet endeavor to flee from another's which is not.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

Do not consider anything for your interest which makes you break your word, quit your modesty or inclines you to any practice which will not bear the light or look the world in the face.

...the sole thing of which any man can be deprived is the present; since this is all he owns, and nobody can lose what is not his.

Life is a campaign, a brief staying in a strange region.