The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.

Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat.

Great is he who enjoys his earthenware as if it were plate, and not less great is the man to whom all his plate is no more that earthenware.

The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.

To give and to lose is nothing; but to lose and to give still is the part of a great mind.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes.