If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to.

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

When you have decided that a thing ought to be done and are doing it, never avoid bein seen doing it, though many shall form an unfavorable opinion about it. For if it is not right to do it, avoid doing the thing; but if it is right, why are you afraid of those who shall find fault wrongly?

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.

Fight against yourself, recover yourself to decency, to modesty, to freedom. And, in the first place, condemn your actions; but when you have condemned them, do not despair of yourself. For both ruin and recovery are from within.