True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.

Forgive that you may be forgiven.

Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by actions.

It's unknown the place and uncertain the time where death awaits you; thus you must expect death to find you, every time, at every place.

It is not goodness to be better than the worst.

The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.

I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.