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.

Do everything as in the eye of another.

If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.

A dwarf can stand on a mountain, he's no taller.

The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and pertubations; to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.

No one can hold absolute power for long, controlled power endures.