What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.

I do not sacrifice, but lend myself to business.

Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.

There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.