It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

Philosophy's power to blunt all the blows of circumstance is beyond belief.

If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.

Never to wrong others takes one a long way towards peace of mind.

We must take care to live not merely a long life, but a full one; for living a long life requires only good fortune, but living a full life requires character. Long is the life that is fully lived; it is fulfilled only when the mind supplies its own good qualities and empowers itself from within.

There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in his power to try himself.

On him does death lie heavily, who, but too well known to all, dies to himself unknown.