Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.

If you hear that someone is speaking ill of you, instead of trying to defend yourself you should say: 'He obviously does not know me very well, since there are so many other faults he could have mentioned.'

Men are disturbed not by the things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.

You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will.

A soul that makes virtue its companion is like an over-flowing well, for it is clean and pellucid, sweet and wholesome, open to all, rich, blameless and indestructible.

We ought to flee the friendship of the wicked, and the enmity of the good.

Don't be prideful with any excellence that is not your own