It is one thing to remember, another to know. To remember is to safeguard something entrusted to the memory. But to know is to make each thing one's own, not depend on the text and always to look back to the teacher. "Zeno said this, Cleanthes said this." Let there be space between you and the book.

You are your choices.

Wisdom comes to no one by chance.

The largest part of goodness is the will to become good.

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.

Lack of desire is the greatest riches.