Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity.

What difference does it make, after all, what your position in life is if you dislike it yourself?

Philosophy takes as her aim the state of happiness...she shows us what are real and what are only apparent evils. She strips men's minds of empty thinking, bestows a greatness that is solid and administers a check to greatness where it is puffed up and all an empty show; she sees that we are left no doubt about the difference between what is great and what is bloated.

It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.

Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted.

The best cure for anger is delay.

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.