When God has once begun to throw down the prosperous, He overthrows them altogether: such is the end of the mighty.

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.

Let ease and rest at times be given to the weary.

He shows a greater mind who does not restrain his laughter, than he who does not deny his tears.

My advice is really this: what we hear the philosophers saying and what we find in their writings should be applied in our pursuit of the happy life. We should hunt out the helpful pieces of teaching and the spirited and noble-minded sayings which are capable of immediate practical application-not far far-fetched or archaic expressions or extravagant metaphors and figures of speech-and learn them so well that words become works.

When modesty has once perished, it will never revive.

However wretched a fellow-mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species.