If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should?

You ought to choose both physician and friend, not the most agreeable, but the most useful.

To adorn our characters by the charm of an amiable nature shows at once a lover of beauty and a lover of man.

Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.

Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a man of virtue by having reason as the consolation of grief.

Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control