All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.

A wise man loses nothing, if he but save himself.

Wise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.

The first distinction among men, and the first consideration that gave one precedence over another, was doubtless the advantage of beauty.

The wise man should withdraw his soul within, out of the crowd, and keep it in freedom and power to judge things freely; but as for externals, he should wholly follow the accepted fashions and forms.

As for me, then, I love life and cultivate it just as God has been pleased to grant it to us.

We cannot be held to what is beyond our strength and means; for at times the accomplishment and execution may not be in our power, and indeed there is nothing really in our own power except the will: on this are necessarily based and founded all the principles that regulate the duty of man.