The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself.

Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

Nothing is so false as human life, nothing so treacherous. God knows no one would have accepted it as a gift, if it had not been given without our knowledge.

A well-governed appetite is a great part of liberty

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

Dignity increases more easily than it begins.