My advice is really this: what we hear the philosophers saying and what we find in their writings should be applied in our pursuit of the happy life. We should hunt out the helpful pieces of teaching and the spirited and noble-minded sayings which are capable of immediate practical application-not far far-fetched or archaic expressions or extravagant metaphors and figures of speech-and learn them so well that words become works.

Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.

That which Fortune has not given, she cannot take away.

Its harder for people to seek retirement from themselves than from the law

The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable

To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.

No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.