There is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.
Democracy is more cruel than wars or tyrants.
The mind should be allowed some relaxation, that it may return to its work all the better for the rest.
Philosophy alone makes the mind invincible, and places us out of the reach of fortune, so that all her arrows fall short of us.
Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.
The profit on a good action is to have done it.