Some there are that torment themselves afresh with the memory of what is past; others, again, afflict themselves with the apprehension of evils to come; and very ridiculously both - for the one does not now concern us, and the other not yet ... One should count each day as a separate life.

Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence. -Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium

Where silence is not allowed, what then is permissible?

No man is born wise; but wisdom and virtue require a tutor; though we can easily learn to be vicious without a master.

Hold fast then to this sound and wholesome rule of life; indulge the body only as far as is needful for health.

The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves.

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.