True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing.

The great soul surrenders itself to fate.

Courage is a scorner of things which inspire fear.

If you wish to fear nothing, consider that everything is to be feared.

The sun also shines on the wicked.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?

It is not death we fear, but the thought of it.