No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.

Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.

As long as we are among humans, let us be humane.

Only a great man, believe me, and one whose excellence rises far above human failings, will not allow anything to be stolen from his own span of time, and his life is very long precisely because he has devoted to himself entirely any time that became available. None of it lay uncultivated and idle, none was under another man's control, for guarding it most jealously, he found nothing worth exchanging for his own precious time.

Unfamiliarity lends weight to misfortune, and there was never a man whose grief was not heightened by surprise.

Haste trips up its own heels, fetters and stops itself.

Do not grudge your brother his rest. He has at last become free, safe and immortal, and ranges joyous through the boundless heavens; he has left this low-lying region and has soared upwards to that place which receives in its happy bosom the souls set free from the chains of matter. Your brother has not lost the light of day, but has obtained a more enduring light. He has not left us, but has gone on before.