No one can lead a happy life, or even one that is bearable, without the pursuit of wisdom, and that the perfection of wisdom is what makes the happy life, although even the beginnings of wisdom make life bearable. Yet this conviction, clear as it is, needs to be strengthened and given deeper roots through daily reflection; making noble resolutions is not a important as keeping the resolutions you have made already.

Fortune dreads the brave, and is only terrible to the coward.

A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

Life, if thou knowest how to use it, is long enough.

The best way to do good to ourselves is to do it to others; the right way to gather is to scatter.

I was shipwrecked before I got aboard.