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

The poor are not the people with less, which is less desirable

No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.

If wisdom were offered me with this restriction, that I should keep it close and not communicate it, I would refuse the gift.

Those things which make the infernal regions terrible, the darkness, the prison, the river of flaming fire, the judgment seat, are all a fable, with which the poets amuse themselves, and by them agitate us with vain terrors.

All cruelty springs from weakness.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.