We ought to flee the friendship of the wicked, and the enmity of the good.

He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.

Never say about anything, "I have lost it," but only "I have given it back." Is your child dead? It has been given back. Is your wife dead? She has been returned.

It has been ordained that there be summer and winter, abundance and dearth, virtue and vice, and all such opposites for the harmony of the whole, and (Zeus) has given each of us a body, property, and companions.

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

When a man is proud because he can understand and explain the writings of Chrysippus, say to yourself, 'if Chrysippus had not written obscurely, this man would have had nothing to be proud of.'

No great thing is created suddenly. There must be time. Give your best and always be kind.