I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.

It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.

We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.

There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer.

It is bad to live for necessity; but there is no necessity to live in necessity.

It is opportunity that makes the thief.

Philosophy's power to blunt all the blows of circumstance is beyond belief.