How much joy would there be in living eighty years in the prime? Such a man did not live, but lingered among the living, did not die late, but died long.
The wise man thinks most of poverty when he is surrounded by wealth.
Wisdom can never be angry with itself.
Wisdom frees minds from vanity.
Reckless courage is a special kind of cowardice.
Courage is contempt for fear. He ignores the dangers that threaten us, but calls them to battle and crushes them.
The most excruciating thing is to be unknown.
We do not dare to do much not because it is difficult; it's hard because we don't dare.
We learn, alas, for school and not for life.
The medal for a good deed is the very act of doing it.
The object of philosophy is the science of good and evil.
Learn manners first, and wisdom afterwards, for you cannot learn the last lessons without knowing the first.
Misfortune does not come to us out of the blue: it is within us, in our very womb.
There is no great mind without a little madness.
The road from earth to the stars is not smooth.
To shed no one's blood, to secure the tranquility of the whole world and peace in your time - this is the ultimate courage.
Do not consider happy the one who depends on happiness.
He who has little is not poor, but he who wants much.
It is not in man's nature not to feel suffering, but it behooves a man to know how to endure it.
Ignorance is an unsuitable cure for misery.
Accept with dignity what cannot be avoided.
Some cures are more dangerous than the disease itself.
Some unwritten laws are stronger than all written ones.
Necessity defeats all laws.
Something imperfect will surely decay and perish.
Misfortune is a fit occasion for virtue.
Medicines have no effect where what is considered a vice becomes a habit.
There is no man who would not rather fall once than stagger forever.
No one will admit to being miserly or greedy.
No man is a malicious judge of himself.