Again, let us possess nothing that can be snatched from us to the great profit of a plotting foe.

Evil can never grow so strong, and nobility of character can never be so plotted against, that the name of philosophy shall cease to be worshipful and sacred.

repose does not consist in condemning all motion as merely vexation;

inasmuch as hope is merely the title of an uncertain blessing: I

There is an element of self-seeking even in our sorrow.

The person you are matters more than the place to which you go; for that reason we should not make the mind a bondsman to any one place.

no shock of terror to the eye or to the ear. The other kind of evil comes, so to speak, in the form of a huge parade.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

Virtue is held too cheap by the man who counts his body too dear. We should cherish the body with the greatest care;