There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.

Poverty with joy isn't poverty at all. The poor man is not one who has little, but one who hankers after more.

Consider an enemy may become a friend.

Rehearse death. To say this is to tell a person to rehearse his freedom. A person who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave. He is above, or at any rate, beyond the reach of, all political powers.

Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by actions.

Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.

Life without the courage to die is slavery.