Let us fight the battle-retreat from the things that attract us and rouse ourselves to meet the things that actually attack us.

Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness. The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort. To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.

No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.

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

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.

Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.