The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.

The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for a good conscience, the next for health of mind, and then of body.

Many person might have achieved wisdom had they not supposed that they already possessed it.

The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.

A man afraid of death will never play the part of a live man.

Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.