What is a good person? One who achieves tranquillity by having formed the habit of asking on every occasion, "what is the right thing to do now?"

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.

No man is free who is not master of himself... Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose?

No living being is held by anything so strongly as its own needs.