What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing-to live in accord with his own nature.

Virtue is shut out from no one; she is open to all, accepts all, invites all, gentlemen, freedmen, slaves, kings, and exiles; she selects neither house nor fortune; she is satisfied with a human being without adjuncts.

Virtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality.

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

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes.

If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.

Every change of place becomes a delight.