God has entrusted me with myself.

The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase. At first, keep quiet and count the days when you were not angry: "I used to be angry every day, then every other day: next, every two, then every three days!" and if you succeed in passing thirty days, sacrifice to the gods in thanksgiving.

No man is free who is not master of himself... Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose?

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

Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

Seek not good from without; seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.