To be getting an education means this: to be learning what is your own, and what is not your own.

We can't control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.

When you let go of your attention for a little while, do not think you may recover it whenever you please.

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.

If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

Seek not good from without; seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.