We are sure to get the better of fortune if we do but grapple with her.

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.

Accustom yourself to that which you bear ill, and you will bear it well.

Just where death is expecting you is something we cannot know; so, for your part, expect him everywhere.

Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.

Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do not perceive ourselves to be sick, renders us more hard to be cured.

Small sorrows speak great ones are silent.