We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.
What is it to be a philosopher? Is it not to be prepared against events?
In the long run, every man will pay the penalty for this own misdeeds.
Ruin and recovering are both from within.
When you want to hear a philosopher, do not say, 'You say nothing to me'; only show yourself worthy or fit to hear, and then you will see how you will move the speaker.
Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.