“Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insinuating and insidious something that elicits secrets just like love or liquor.”

“Although the sum and substance of the happy life is unalloyed freedom from care, and though the secret of such freedom is unshaken confidence... men gather together that which causes worry.”

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

“It is our conscience, not our pride, that has put doorkeepers at our doors.”

“You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire”

“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.”

“Soft living imposes on us the penalty of debility; we cease to be able to do the things we've long been grudging about doing.”