Everyone rushes his life on, and suffers from a yearning for the future and a boredom with the present. But that man who devotes every hour to his own needs, who plans every day as if it were his last, neither longs for nor fears tomorrow.

You must linger among a limited number of master-thinkers, and digest their works, if you would derive ideas which shall win firm hold in your mind.

Sovereignty over any foreign land is insecure.

Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

Money has never yet made anyone rich.

No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.