“Nobody will be afraid who believes nothing can happen to him.”

“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest victory is over self.”

“Bad people...are in conflict with themselves; they desire one thing and will another, like the incontinent who choose harmful pleasures instead of what they themselves believe to be good.”

“He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.”

“It is likely that unlikely things should happen”

“[I]t is rather the case that we desire something because we believe it to be good than that we believe a thing to be good because we desire it. It is the thought that starts things off.”

“Nature does nothing uselessly.”