Put it out of the power of truth to give you an ill character. If anybody reports you not to be an honest man let your practice give him the lie.

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

Welcome every experience the looms of fate may weave for you.

In this flowing stream, then, on which there is no abiding, what is there of the things which hurry by on which a man would set a high price? It would be just as if a man should fall in love with one of the sparrows which fly by, but it has already passed out of sight.

Nothing happens to any man which he is not formed by nature to bear. The same things happen to another, and either because he does not see that they have happened or because he would show a great spirit he is firm and remains unharmed. It is a shame then that ignorance and conceit should be stronger than wisdom.

Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.