Virtue is nothing else than right reason

Do what you should, not what you may.

Refuse to let the thought of death bother you: nothing is grim when we have escaped that fear.

The greatest power of ruling consists in the exercise of self-control.

What difference does it make, after all, what your position in life is if you dislike it yourself?

It is only luxury and avarice that make poverty grievous to us; for it is a very small matter that does our business, and when we have provided against cold, hunger, and thirst, all the rest is but vanity and excess.

We learn not for life but for the debating-room.