It is within the power of every man to live his life nobly, but of no man to live forever. Yet so many of us hope that life will go on forever, and so few aspire to live nobly.

It is a proof of nobility of mind to despise injuries.

To rule yourself is the ultimate power.

Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.

Aequat omnes cinis.

No state is so bitter than a calm mind cannot find in it some consolation.

What once were vices are manners now.

Do not stumble on something behind you.

True love can fear no one.

Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.

Abstinence is easier than temperance.

The wise man is neither raised up by prosperity nor cast down by adversity; for always he has striven to rely predominantly on himself, and to derive all joy from himself.

To see a man fearless in dangers, untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or feared, all men must acknowledge that this can be from nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body.

Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable.

It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.

Brother, the Great Spirit has made us all.. .

O, what blindness does great prosperity cast upon our minds!

It is folly to die of the fear of death.

Begin at once to live, and count each day as a separate life.

Whatever has overstepped its due bounds is always in a state of instability.