The man who thinks he knows does not yet know what knowing is

The most evident token and apparent sign of true wisdom is a constant and unconstrained rejoicing.

It is equally pointless to weep because we won't be alive a hundred years from now as that we were not here a hundred years ago.

But the touch or company of any man whatsoever stirreth up their heat, which in their solitude was hushed and quiet, and lay as cinders raked up in ashes.

Lucius Arruntius killed himself, he said, to escape both the future and the past.

In truth, the care and expense of our fathers aims only at furnishing our heads with knowledge; of judgement and virtue, little news.

Every one is well or ill at ease, according as he finds himself! not he whom the world believes, but he who believes himself to be so, is content; and in him alone belief gives itself being and reality