Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not because we needed them but because we had them.

Maximum remedium est irae mora.

You should … live in such a way that there is nothing which you could not as easily tell your enemy as keep to yourself.

Nothing is burdensome if taken lightly, and nothing need arouse one's irritation so long as one doesn't make it bigger than it is by getting irritated.

It is not the man who has too little that is poor, but the one who hankers after more.

Regard [a friend] as loyal, and you will make him loyal.

To be everywhere is to be nowhere.

Philosophy calls for simple living, not for doing penance, and the simple way of life need not be a crude one.

What fortune has made yours is not your own.