- "Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world."
- "To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete."
- "There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will."
- "The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things."
- "Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater."
- "People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them."
- "No man is free who is not master of himself."
- "Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope."
- "It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death."
- "Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else."
- "Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public."
- "He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has."
- "Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant."
- "All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way."
- "All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain."
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