True happiness is...to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

Our posterity will wonder about our ignorance of things so plain.

We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.

There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer.

Beauty is such a fleeting blossom, how can wisdom rely upon its momentary delight?

If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.

Self-denial is the best riches.