To see a man fearless in dangers, untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or feared, all men must acknowledge that this can be from nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body.

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

Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence through sin.

It's all in your headJ you have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is yours.

Before old age I took care to live well; in old age I take care to die well; but to die well is to die willingly.

If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.

It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.