Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come.

We have no evidence as yet about mind or the power to think; it seems to be a widely different kind of soul, differing as what is eternal from what is perishable; it alone is capable of existence in isolation from all other psychic powers.

No man of high and generous spirit is ever willing to indulge in flattery; the good may feel affection for others, but will not flatter them.

The high-minded man does not bear grudges, for it is not the mark of a great soul to remember injuries, but to forget them.

The angry man wishes the object of his anger to suffer in return; hatred wishes its object not to exist.

He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.

Men come together in cities in order to live: they remain together in order to live the good life