The chief good is the suspension of the judgment [especially negative judgement], which tranquillity of mind follows like its shadow.

You will become a teacher of yourself when for the same things that you blame others, you also blame yourself.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

If you are to be kept right, you must possess either good friends or red-hot enemies. The one will warn you, the other will expose you.

To become self-educated you should condemn yourself for all those things that you would criticize others.

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.

No man is hurt but by himself. ...Literally by how he interprets what happens to him. If he focusses on how it could have been better, he will be hurt. If he focusses on how it could have been worse, he will be happy. The same is true for women too.