If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

If you would be well spoken of, learn to be well-spoken; and having learnt to be well- spoken, strive also to be well-doing; so shall you succeed in being well spoken of.

Once you know who you are and to whom you are linked, you will know what to do

Happiness is an equivalent for all troublesome things.

What is a child? Ignorance. What is a child? Want of instruction.

What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.

No living being is held by anything so strongly as by its own needs. Whatever therefore appears a hindrance to these, be it brother, or father, or child, or mistress, or friend, is hated, abhorred, execrated.