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

As fate is inexorable, and not to be moved either with tears or reproaches, an excess of sorrow is as foolish as profuse laughter; while, on the other hand, not to mourn at all is insensibility.

It's a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.