“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. ”

“No prizefighter can go with high spirits into the strife if he has never been beaten black and blue; the only contestant who can confidently enter the lists is the man who has seen his own blood, who has felt his teeth rattle beneath his opponent's fist, who has been tripped and felt the full force of his adversary's charge, who has been downed in bloody but not it spirit, one who as often as he falls, rises again with greater defiance than ever.”

“No man is crushed by misfortune unless he has first been deceived by prosperity”

“Finally, everybody agrees that no one pursuit can be successfully followed by a man who is preoccupied with many things—eloquence cannot, nor the liberal studies—since the mind, when distracted, takes in nothing very deeply, but rejects everything that is, as it were, crammed into it. There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living: there is nothing that is harder to learn.”

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

“He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary.”

“In sapientis quoque animo, etiam cum uulnus sanatum est, cicatrix manet." : "The wise man's mind will keep its scar long after the wound has healed”