You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.
It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.