Common and vulgar people ascribe all ills that they feel to others; people of little wisdom ascribe to themselves; people of much wisdom, to no one.

A guide, on finding a man who has lost his way, brings him back to the right path—he does not mock and jeer at him and then take himself off. You also must show the unlearned man the truth, and you will see that he will follow. But so long as you do not show it him, you should not mock, but rather feel your own incapacity.

Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.

A soul which is conversant with virtue is like an ever flowing source, for it is pure and tranquil and potable and sweet and communicative (social) and rich and harmless and free from mischief.

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

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.