As long as you live, keep learning how to live.
Where fear is, happiness is not.
Life, if well lived, is long enough.
Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
No man was ever wise by chance.
He that does good to another does good also to himself.
A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.
We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.
When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.
A man is as miserable as he thinks he is.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
The wish for healing is the half of health.
True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxiety about the future.
If you don’t know to which port you are sailing, no wind will be favorable.
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.