Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.

What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or even return the blow, but simply ignore it.

What were once vices are the fashion of the day.

We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.

Not to feel one's misfortunes is not human, not to bear them is not manly.

It is never too late to turn from the errors of our ways: He who repents of his sins is almost innocent.

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.