When one is friend on himself, also is friend of everybody.

Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.

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.

It is sweet to mingle tears with tears; Griefs, where they wound in solitude, Wound more deeply.

Fortune's not content with knocking a man down; she sends him spinning head over heels, crash upon crash.

Light is that grief which counsel can allay.

It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.