If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.

The flourishing life cannot be achieved until we moderate our desires and see how superficial and fleeting they are.

Never look for your work in one place and your progress in another.

Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them

We must be afraid of neither poverty nor exile nor imprisonment; of fear itself only should we be afraid.

And be silent for the most part, or else make only the most necessary remarks, and express these in few words. But rarely, and when occasion requires you to talk, talk, indeed, but about no ordinary topics. Do not talk about gladiators, or horseraces, or athletes, or things to eat or drink - topics that arise on all occasions; but above all, do not talk about people, either blaming, or praising, or comparing them.

All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.