To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.

How much does great prosperity overspread the mind with darkness.

To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-

Just where death is expecting you is something we cannot know; so, for your part, expect him everywhere.

Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death; a thousand doors open on to it.

It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to it than it does to the gods.