"A free man cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not an easy thing to do without at the same time becoming a slave to mobs or kings."

"I was never anxious to please the mob, for I have not learned what pleases it."

"The greatest good is prudence."

"We should heal our misfortunes by the recollection of our past joys and by the acknowledgment that it is impossible to undo what has been done."

"Empty is the argument of the philosopher by which no human suffering is therapeutically treated. For just as there is no profit in medicine if it does not expel the diseases of the body, so there is n…"