To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy peace of mind.

An old man at school is a contemptible and ridiculous object.

Golden roofs break men's rest.

Philosophy alone makes the mind invincible, and places us out of the reach of fortune, so that all her arrows fall short of us.

No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it. For by its very tossing it tightens its grip and plants its roots more securely; the fragile trees are those that have grown in a sunny valley.

The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way.

Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.