Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Happiness is an equivalent for all troublesome things.

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.

Does a man reproach thee for being proud or ill-natured, envious or conceited, ignorant or detracting? Consider with thyself whether his reproaches are true. If they are not, consider that thou art not the person whom he reproaches, but that he reviles an imaginary being, and perhaps loves what thou really art, though he hates what thou appearest to be.

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

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

No man is disturbed by things, but by his opinion about things.