Retire into yourself as much as possible. Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Welcome those whom you are capable of improving. The process is a mutual one. People learn as they teach.

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.

To rule yourself is the ultimate power

It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.

Life's like a play; it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

As Lucretius says: 'Thus ever from himself doth each man flee.' But what does he gain if he does not escape from himself? He ever follows himself and weighs upon himself as his own most burdensome companion. And so we ought to understand that what we struggle with is the fault, not of the places, but of ourselves