Nothing will ever please me, no matter how excellent or beneficial, if I must retain the knowledge of it to myself. . . . . . No good thing is pleasant to possess, without friends to share it.

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

As Lucretius says: 'Thus ever from himself doth each man flee.' But what does he gain if he does not escape from himself? He ever follows himself and weighs upon himself as his own most burdensome companion. And so we ought to understand that what we struggle with is the fault, not of the places, but of ourselves

Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel...You are called in to help the unhappy.

You roll my log, and I will roll yours.

Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.

That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.