Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by action. If this be true, not only do the doctrines of wisdom help us but the precepts also, which check and banish our emotions by a sort of official decree.

Abstinence is easier than temperance.

You must know for which harbor you are headed, if you are to catch the right wind to take you there.

Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.

Epicurus says, "gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it." And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.

Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.