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

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.

He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

What disturbs and alarms man are not the things, but his opinions and fancies about the things.

It is not he who gives abuse that affronts, but the view that we take of it as insulting; so that when one provokes you it is your own opinion which is provoking.