The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.

Plato once wanted to punish one of his slaves and asked his nephew to do the actual whipping for he himself did not own his anger.

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.

Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.

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

He who tenders doubtful safety to those in trouble refuses it.

Misfortune is the test of a person's merit.