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.

In the long run, every man will pay the penalty for this own misdeeds.

The appearance of things to the mind is the standard of every action to man.

Do not try to seem wise to others.

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

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

No living being is held by anything so strongly as its own needs.