Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.

To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none

Just as so many rivers, so many showers of rain from above, so many medicinal springs do not alter the taste of the sea, so the pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. For it maintains its balance, and over all that happens it throws its own complexion, because it is more powerful than external circumstances.

The part of life which we really live is short.

The way to good conduct is never too late.

You roll my log, and I will roll yours.

It's the great soul that surrenders itself to fate, but a puny degenerate thing that struggles.