The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.

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

All cruelty springs from weakness.

A favor is to a grateful man delightful always; to an ungrateful man only once.

Without an adversary prowess shrivels. We see how great and efficient it really is only when it shows by endurance what it is capable of.

Freedom can't be bought for nothing. If you hold her precious, you must hold all else of little worth.

The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.