But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!

The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.

Every guilty person is his own hangman.

The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.

We haven't time to spare to hear whether it was between Italy and Sicily that he ran into a storm or somewhere outside the world we know-when every day we're running into our own storms, spiritual storms, and driven by vice into all the troubles that Ulysses ever knew.

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

Philosophy's power to blunt all the blows of circumstance is beyond belief.