No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.

Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.

Of war men ask the outcome, not the cause.

Anger is like those ruins which smash themselves on what they fall.

Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.

Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.