If you think you control things that are in the control of others, you will lament. You will be disturbed and you will blame both gods and men.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

You will do the greatest service to the state if you shall raise, not the roofs of the houses, but the souls of the citizens: for it is better that great souls should dwell in small houses rather than for mean slaves to lurk in great houses.

God has entrusted me with myself. No man is free who is not master of himself. A man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

Consider first the nature of the business in hand; then examine thy own nature, whether thou hast strength to undertake it.

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom. Only the educated are free.

Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.