If you want to live your whole life free from pain you must become either a god or else a corpse. Consider other men's troubles and that will comfort you.

Do not fight against Providence; nor bring more heavy weather to the storm. Face what is already there.

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Chance is a kind of god, for it preserves many things which we do not observe.

Rest assured, for every piece of business the most businesslike thing is to choose the right moment.

Everything is destroyed by its own particular vice: the destructive power resides within. Rust destroys iron, moths destroy clothes, the worm eats away the wood; but greatest of all evils is envy, impious habitant of corrupt souls, which ever was, is, and shall be a consuming disease.

No man alive can say, This shall not happen to me.