Tis no wonder, says one of the ancients, that chance has so great a dominion over us, since it is by chance we live.

Can anything be imagined so ridiculous, that this miserable and wretched creature [man], who is not so much as master of himself, but subject to the injuries of all things, should call himself master and emperor of the world, of which he has not power to know the least part, much less to command the whole?

The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.

All the fame I look for in life is to have lived it quietly

We are all of us richer than we think we are

There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.