“Most powerful is he who has himself in his power.”

“Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.”

“I have learned to be a friend to myself Great improvement this indeed Such a one can never be said to be alone for know that he who is a friend to himself is a friend to all mankind”

“Men whose spirit has grown arrogant from the great favor of fortune have this most serious fault—those whom they have injured they also hate.”

“When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.”

“No past life has been lived to lend us glory, and that which has existed before us is not ours.”

“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 a fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient; and looking upon them only as sick and extravagant.”