If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich.
The philosopher: he alone knows how to live for himself. He is the one, in fact, who knows the fundamental thing: how to live.
It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.
Look at the stars lighting up the sky: no one of them stays in the same place.
The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.