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.

It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and - even more surprising - it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.

The body is not a permanent dwelling, but a sort of inn which is to be left behind when one perceives that one is a burden to the host.

If you don't know what port you are sailing to, no wind is favourable.

Luck never made a man wise.

He is most powerful who governs himself.