Speech is the index of the mind.

There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living; there is nothing harder to learn.

We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.

Our (the Stoic) motto, as you know, is live according to nature.

He who would arrive at the appointed end must follow a single road and not wander through many ways.

Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.

The greatest chastisement that a man may receive who hath outraged another, is to have done the outrage; and there is no man who is so rudely punished as he that is subject to the whip of his own repentance.