The soul that companies with virtue is like an ever-flowing source. It is a pure, clear, and wholesome draught, sweet, rich and generous of its store, that injures not, neither destroys.

What is a good person? One who achieves tranquillity by having formed the habit of asking on every occasion, "what is the right thing to do now?"

If your heart is quite set upon a crown, make and put on one of roses, for it will make the prettier appearance.

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.'

I am always content with what happens; for I know that what God chooses is better than what I choose.

Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.

Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?