If you set your heart upon philosophy, you must straightway prepare yourself to be laughed at and mocked by many who will say Behold a philosopher arisen among us! or How came you by that brow of scorn? But do you cherish no scorn, but hold to those things which seem to you the best, as one set by God in that place. Remember too, that if you abide in those ways, those who first mocked you, the same shall afterwards reverence you; but if you yield to them, you will be laughed at twice as much as before.

Try to enjoy the great festival of life with other men!

At this time is freedom anything but the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Contentment comes not so much from great wealth as from few wants.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.

If a person had delivered up your body to some passer-by, you would certainly be angry. And do you feel no shame in delivering up your own mind to any reviler, to be disconcerted and confounded?