Don't be prideful with any excellence that is not your own

Some of their faults men readily admit, but others not so readily.

It's so simple really: If you say you're going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.

At this time is freedom anything but the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

When men are unhappy, they do not imagine they can ever cease to be so; and when some calamity has fallen on them, they do not see how they can get rid of it. Nevertheless, both arrive; and the gods have ordered it so, in the end men seek it from the gods

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control