It is a proof of nobility of mind to despise injuries.

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.

Nothing is ours except time.

Make haste to live, and consider each day a life.

It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.

How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.

When God has once begun to throw down the prosperous, He overthrows them altogether: such is the end of the mighty.