Philosophy is the health of the mind.

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.

The fear of war is worse than war itself.

The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.

As fate is inexorable, and not to be moved either with tears or reproaches, an excess of sorrow is as foolish as profuse laughter; while, on the other hand, not to mourn at all is insensibility.

Do you desire not to be angry? Be not inquisitive. He who inquires what is said of him only works out his own misery.

Corporeal punishment falls far more heavily than most weighty pecuniary penalty.