Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.
Let him who has given a favor be silent; let he who has received it tell it.
It is bad to live for necessity; but there is no necessity to live in necessity.
It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.
There is nothing the wise man does reluctantly.
A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.