Misfortunes, in fine, cannot be avoided; but they may be sweetened, if not overcome, and our lives made happy by philosophy.
An age builds up cities: an hour destroys them.
Many men provoke others to overreach them by excessive suspicion; their extraordinary distrust in some sort justifies the deceit.
Leisure without study is death, and the grave of a living man.
Fortune may rob us of our wealth, not of our courage.
The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.