If you have assumed a character above your strength, you have both acted in this matter in an unbecoming way, and you have neglected that which you might have fulfilled.

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

It is wicked to withdraw from being useful to the needy, and cowardly to give way to the worthless.

Two principles we should always have ready — that there is nothing good or evil save in the will; and that we are not to lead events, but to follow them.

Every place is safe to him who lives with justice.

The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.

Nothing outside the will can hinder or harm the will; it can only harm itself. If then we accept this, and, when things go amiss, are inclined to blame ourselves, remembering that judgment alone can disturb our peace and constancy, I swear to you by all the gods that we have made progress.