It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.
We suffer more in imagination than in reality.
To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.
The way to good conduct is never too late.
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable.
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.