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.

Death: There's nothing bad about it at all except the thing that comes before it-the fear of it.

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

The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.

As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit

It is essential to make oneself used to putting up with a little. Even the wealthy and the well provided are continually met and frustrated by difficult times and situations. It is in no man's power to have whatever he wants; but he has it in his power not to wish for what he hasn't got, and cheerfully make the most of the things that do come his way.

The body is not a permanent dwelling, but a sort of inn which is to be left behind when one perceives that one is a burden to the host.