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.

When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.

If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

If you see anybody wail and complain, call him a slave, though he be clad in purple.

An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself.

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.