No one loves his country for its size or eminence, but because it's his own.
Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.
Philosophy alone makes the mind invincible, and places us out of the reach of fortune, so that all her arrows fall short of us.
A favor is to a grateful man delightful always; to an ungrateful man only once.
No one can have all he desires.
Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all. It sets the slave at liberty, carries the banished man home, and places all mortals on the same level, insomuch that life itself were a punishment without it.