There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.

The wise man lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn't just fall to a person's lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn't go to anyone other than oneself to find her.

A king is he who has laid fear aside and the base longings of an evil heart; whom ambition unrestrained and the fickle favor of the reckless mob move not.