“Light griefs are loquacious, but the great are dumb.”

“Night brings our troubles to the light rather than banishes them.”

“It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.”

“It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence”

“We are members of one great body, planted by nature…. We must consider that we were born for the good of the whole”

“I wish Lucilius you had been so happy as to have taken this resolution long ago I wish we had not deferred to think of an happy life till now we are come within light of death But let us delay no longer”

“you shall be told what pleased me to-day in the writings ofHecato; it is these words: "What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself." That wasindeed a great benefit; such a person can never be alone. You may be sure that such a man is a friend to all mankind.”