Other passions have objects to flatter them, and seem to content and satisfy them for a while; there is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury, and pelf in covetousness; but envy can gain nothing but vexation.

Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it?

He who does not live in some degree for others, hardly lives for himself.

There is no greater enemy to those who would please than expectation.

Sometimes it is a good choice not to choose at all.

Glory and repose are things that cannot possibly inhabit in one and the same place.

Desire and hope will push us on toward the future.