Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.

When some state or other offered Alexander a part of its territory and half of all its property he told them that 'he hadn't come to Asia with the intention of accepting whatever they cared to give him, but of letting them keep whatever he chose to leave them.' Philosophy, likewise, tells all other occupations: 'It's not my intention to accept whatever time is leftover from you; you shall have, instead, what I reject.' Give your whole mind to her.

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

Life, if thou knowest how to use it, is long enough.

Fortune dreads the brave, and is only terrible to the coward.

Dignity increases more easily than it begins.

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.