If you can do only a little. Do what you can. What you cannot enforce, do not command.

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

To them, I said, the truth would be literally nothing but the shadows of the images.

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

We can do nothing without the body, let us always take care that it is in the best condition to sustain us.

In every sort of danger there are various ways of winning through, if one is ready to do and say anything whatever.

The partisan when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own assertions.