Self-denial is the best riches.

Prudence and love cannot be mixed; you can end love, but never moderate it.

Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

The man who spends his time choosing one resort after another in a hunt for peace and quiet will in every place he visits find something to prevent him from relaxing.

Whoever has nothing to hope, let him despair of nothing.

We deliberate about the parcels of life, but not about life itself, and so we arrive all unawares at its different epochs, and have the trouble of beginning all again. And so finally it is that we do not walk as men confidently towards death, but let death come suddenly upon us.