Oh, what darkness does great prosperity cast over our minds!

And this, too, affords no small occasion for anxieties – if you are bent on assuming a pose and never reveal yourself to anyone frankly, in the fashion of many who live a false life...

Huius (sapientis) opus unum est de divinis humanisque verum invenire; ab hac numquam recedit religio, pietas, iustitia …

Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

To expect punishment is to suffer it; and to earn it is to expect it.

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

However much you possess there’s someone else who has more, and you’ll be fancying yourself to be short of things you need to exact extent to which you lag behind him.

Life will follow the path it started upon, and will neither reverse nor check its course; it will make no noise, it will not remind you of its swiftness. Silent it will glide on; it...

that you would not anticipate misery since the evils you dread as coming upon you may perhaps never reach you at least they are not yet come Thus some things torture us more than they...

The road is long if one proceeds by way of precepts but short and effectual if by way of personal example.

Maximum remedium est irae mora.

So you must not think a man has lived long because he has white hair and wrinkles: he has not lived long, just existed long. For suppose you should think that a man had had...

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he...

Away with the world’s opinion of you – it’s always unsettled and divided. Away with the pursuits that have occupied the whole of your life – death is going to deliver the verdict in your...

The world you see, nature’s greatest and most glorious creation, and the human mind which gazes and wonders at it, and is the most splendid part of it, these are our own everlasting possessions and...

In truth, Serenus, I have for a long time been silently asking myself to what I should liken such a condition of mind, and I can find nothing that so closely approaches it as the...

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

How many men soever you slay, you will never kill your successor.

The willing, Destiny guides them. The unwilling, Destiny drags them.

Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.