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.

Man is not fully free unless he is master of himself.

Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!

What is a child? Ignorance. What is a child? Want of instruction.

He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.

You are but an appearance, and not absolutely the thing you appear to be.

Don't regard what anyone says of you, for this, after all, is no concern of yours.