There are a few men whom slavery holds fast, but there are many more who hold fast to slavery.

You have to persevere and fortify your pertinacity until the will to good becomes a disposition to good.

Drunkenness does not create vice; it merely brings it into view.

The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort.

A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.

Epicurus says that you should rather have regard to the company with whom you eat and drink, than to what you eat and drink.

Luck is preparation multiplied by opportunity.