He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will.

We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.

A dwarf is small even if he stands on a mountain; a colossus keeps his height, even if he stands in a well.

Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.

While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.