In theory there is nothing to hinder our following what we are taught;but in life there are many things to draw us aside.

It is the part of an uneducated person to blame others where he himself fares ill; to blame himself is the part of one whose education has begun; to blame neither another nor his own self is the part of one whose education is already complete.

When we act pugnaciously, and injuriously, and angrily, and rudely, to what level have we degenerated? To the level of the wild beasts. Well, the fact is that some of us are wild beasts of a larger size, while others are little animals, malignant and petty.

Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.

Books are the training weights of the mind.

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

And have you not received faculties which will enable you to bear all that happens to you? Have you not received greatness of spirit? Have you not received courage? Have you not received endurance?