In a moment the ashes are made, but a forest is a long time growing.
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.
Prudence and love cannot be mixed; you can end love, but never moderate it.
Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest.
Philosophy's power to blunt all the blows of circumstance is beyond belief.
He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.