Why does no one confess his sins? Because he is yet in them. It is for a man who has awoke from sleep to tell his dreams.

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

Epicurus says that you should rather have regard to the company with whom you eat and drink, than to what you eat and drink.

You talk one way, you live another.

It is dishonorable to say one thing and think another; how much more dishonorable to write one thing and think another.

Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.

If I only have the will to be grateful, I am so.