If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you're needing is not to be in a different place but to be a different person.

Great is he who enjoys his earthenware as if it were plate, and not less great is the man to whom all his plate is no more that earthenware.

Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.

It goes far toward making a man faithful to let him understand that you think him so; and he that does but suspect I will deceive him, gives me a sort of right to do so.

Refuse to let the thought of death bother you: nothing is grim when we have escaped that fear.

Life without the courage to die is slavery.

All that lies betwixt the cradle and the grave is uncertain.