Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.
Philosophy alone makes the mind invincible, and places us out of the reach of fortune, so that all her arrows fall short of us.
I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
We gain so much by quickness, and lose so much by slowness.
Fortune may rob us of our wealth, not of our courage.
Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.