If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

The soul is unwillingly deprived of truth.

As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new.

Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.

It is a mark of a mean capacity to spend much time on the things which concern the body, such as much exercise, much eating, much drinking, much easing of the body, much copulation. But these things should be done as subordinate things: and let all your care be directed to the mind.