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

A king is he who has laid fear aside and the base longings of an evil heart; whom ambition unrestrained and the fickle favor of the reckless mob move not.

Not to feel one's misfortunes is not human, not to bear them is not manly.

Drunkenness is simply voluntary insanity.

It is one thing to remember, another to know. To remember is to safeguard something entrusted to the memory. But to know is to make each thing one's own, not depend on the text and always to look back to the teacher. "Zeno said this, Cleanthes said this." Let there be space between you and the book.

There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.

I shall never be ashamed to quote a bad author if what he says is good.