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.

Don't be prideful with any excellence that is not your own

It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance

Ask yourself, "How are my thoughts, words and deeds affecting my friends, my spouse, my neighbour, my child, my employer, my subordinates, my fellow citizens?"

The soul's impurity consists in bad judgements, and purification consists in producing in it right judgements, and the pure soul is one which has right judgements, for this alone is proof against confusion and pollution in its functions.

Everything has two handles,-one by which it may be borne; another by which it cannot.

Some of their faults men readily admit, but others not so readily.