He grieves more than is necessary who grieves before any cause for sorrow has arisen.

A hated government does not long survive.

You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?

A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.

The soul has this proof of divinity: that divine things delight it.

It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.

There is no genius without a mixture of madness.