Of all the rewards of virtue, . . . the most splendid is fame, for it is fame alone that can offer us the memory of posterity.

Most happy is he who is entirely self-reliant, and who centers all his requirements in himself alone.

The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

"I believe that no characteristic is so distinctively human as the sense of indebtedness we feel, not necessarily for a favor received, but even for the slightest evidence of kindness; and there is nothing so boorish, savage, inhuman as to appear to be overwhelmed by a favor, let alone unworthy of it."

I remember the very thing that I do not wish to; I cannot forget the things I wish to forget.

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

The human mind ever longs for occupation.