There's one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

If you don't know what port you are sailing to, no wind is favourable.

As Lucretius says: 'Thus ever from himself doth each man flee.' But what does he gain if he does not escape from himself? He ever follows himself and weighs upon himself as his own most burdensome companion. And so we ought to understand that what we struggle with is the fault, not of the places, but of ourselves

No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.

The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.

The best cure for anger is delay.