The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution

Rehearse death. To say this is to tell a person to rehearse his freedom. A person who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave. He is above, or at any rate, beyond the reach of, all political powers.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

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

Success gives the character of honesty to some classes of wickedness.

It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.

Light griefs do speak, while sorrow's tongue is bound.