A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.

It's the great soul that surrenders itself to fate, but a puny degenerate thing that struggles.

Accustom yourself to that which you bear ill, and you will bear it well.

If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.

Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.

For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.

What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.