It is the part of a wise man, I say, to refresh and restore himself in moderation with pleasant food and drink, with scents, with the beauty of green plants, with decoration, music, sports, the theater, and other things of this kind, which anyone can use without injury to another.

Don’t cry and don’t rage. Understand.

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.