The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

In a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this kind is the real cause of our doing or not doing any action, but our inward opinions and principles.

To the rational being only the irrational is unendurable, but the rational is endurable.

Common and vulgar people ascribe all ills that they feel to others; people of little wisdom ascribe to themselves; people of much wisdom, to no one.

It is not events that disturb the minds of men, but the view they take of them.

It was the first and most striking characteristic of Socrates never to become heated in discourse, never to utter an injurious or insulting word -- on the contrary, he persistently bore insult from others and thus put an end to the fray.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.