Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.

It's a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.

Life is a play.It's not its length,but its performance that counts.

Do you desire not to be angry? Be not inquisitive. He who inquires what is said of him only works out his own misery.

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.

Great is he who enjoys his earthenware as if it were plate, and not less great is the man to whom all his plate is no more that earthenware.

To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading.