Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by actions.

Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.

Dignity increases more easily than it begins.

If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.

You need a change of soul rather than a change of climate.

The more violent the storm the sooner it is over.

To expel hunger and thirst there is no necessity of sitting in a palace and submitting to the supercilious brow and contumelious favour of the rich and great there is no necessity of sailing upon the deep or of following the camp What nature wants is every where to be found and attainable without much difficulty whereas require the sweat of the brow for these we are obliged to dress anew j compelled to grow old in the field and driven to foreign mores A sufficiency is always at hand