It is pleasant at times to play the madman.

The mind that is anxious about future events is miserable.

Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.

Virtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality.

The body is not a permanent dwelling, but a sort of inn which is to be left behind when one perceives that one is a burden to the host.

A good person dyes events with his own color . . . and turns whatever happens to his own benefit.

Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.