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

There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.

Virtue is shut out from no one; she is open to all, accepts all, invites all, gentlemen, freedmen, slaves, kings, and exiles; she selects neither house nor fortune; she is satisfied with a human being without adjuncts.

Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel...You are called in to help the unhappy.

What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.

It is within the power of every man to live his life nobly, but of no man to live forever. Yet so many of us hope that life will go on forever, and so few aspire to live nobly.

The language of truth is unvarnished enough.