“No wind favors he who has no destined port.”

“No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.”

“Certainly, if he still has himself, a man of understanding has lost nothing.”

“He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.”

“Can anything be imagined so ridiculous, that this miserable and wretched creature [man], who is not so much as master of himself, but subject to the injuries of all things, should call himself master and emperor of the world, of which he has not power to know the least part, much less to command the whole?”

“He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.”

“He who establishes his argument by noise and command, shows that his reason is weak.”