Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.

Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.

Lampis the ship owner, on being asked how he acquired his great wealth, replied, My great wealth was acquired with no difficulty, but my small wealth, my first gains, with much labor.

Silence is safer than speech.

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.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

If you think you control things that are in the control of others, you will lament. You will be disturbed and you will blame both gods and men.