The wise realize that some things are within their control, and most things are not. They learn early on to distinguish between what they can and can't regulate.

By accepting life's limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.

Let silence be your general rule; or say only what is necessary and in few words.

You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will.

When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

When we act pugnaciously, and injuriously, and angrily, and rudely, to what level have we degenerated? To the level of the wild beasts. Well, the fact is that some of us are wild beasts of a larger size, while others are little animals, malignant and petty.