It's unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.

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.

Truths open to everyone, and the claims aren't all staked yet.

The fortune of war is always doubtful.

Concealed anger is to be feared; but hatred openly manifested destroys its chance of revenge.

To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading.

I will have a care of being a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the heaviest of all servitudes; and this may be done by moderate desires.