The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

Now, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.

There is nothing of evil in life for him who rightly comprehends that death is no evil; to know how to die delivers us from all subjection and constraint.

My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul.

An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity.