“Quanto potius, deorum opera celebrare quam Philippi aut Alexandri latrocinia...”

“Ritirati in te stesso per quanto puoi; frequenta le persone che possono renderti migliore e accogli quelli che puoi rendere migliori.”

“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”

“For what prevents us from saying that the happy life is to have a mind that is free, lofty, fearless and steadfast - a mind that is placed beyond the reach of fear, beyond the reach of desire, that counts virtue the only good, baseness the only evil, and all else but a worthless mass of things, which come and go without increasing or diminishing the highest good, and neither subtract any part from the happy life nor add any part to it?A man thus grounded must, whether he wills or not, necessarily be attended by constant cheerfulness and a joy that is deep and issues from deep within, since he finds delight in his own resources, and desires no joys greater than his inner joys.”

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

“Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.”

“Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.”