Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

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

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

Everything has two handles,-one by which it may be borne; another by which it cannot.

Two principles we should always have ready — that there is nothing good or evil save in the will; and that we are not to lead events, but to follow them.

A soul that makes virtue its companion is like an over-flowing well, for it is clean and pellucid, sweet and wholesome, open to all, rich, blameless and indestructible.

It is wicked to withdraw from being useful to the needy, and cowardly to give way to the worthless.