It is impossible that happiness, and yearning for what is not present, should ever be united.

We can't control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.

When our friends are present we ought to treat them well; and when they are absent, to speak of them well.

No living being is held by anything so strongly as its own needs.

It is wicked to withdraw from being useful to the needy, and cowardly to give way to the worthless.

Your master is he who controls that on which you have set your heart or wish to avoid.

What will the world be quite overturned when you die?