To be enslaved to oneself is the heaviest of all servitudes.-

True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.

What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing-to live in accord with his own nature.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

These individulas have riches just as we say that we 'have a fever,' when really the fever has us.

We are more wicked together than separately. If you are forced to be in a crowd, then most of all you should withdraw into yourself.

Many men provoke others to overreach them by excessive suspicion; their extraordinary distrust in some sort justifies the deceit.