To live a life of virtue, match up your thoughts, words, and deeds.

If your heart is quite set upon a crown, make and put on one of roses, for it will make the prettier appearance.

What disturbs people, these are not things, but the judgments relating to things

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

You know yourself what you are worth in your own eyes; and at what price you will sell yourself. For men sell themselves at various prices. This is why, when Florus was deliberating whether he should appear at Nero's shows, taking part in the performance himself, Agrippinus replied, 'Appear by all means.' And when Florus inquired, 'But why do not you appear?' he answered, 'Because I do not even consider the question.'

When men are unhappy, they do not imagine they can ever cease to be so; and when some calamity has fallen on them, they do not see how they can get rid of it. Nevertheless, both arrive; and the gods have ordered it so, in the end men seek it from the gods

Don't be prideful with any excellence that is not your own