All things fade and quickly turn to myth.

It's time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet.

Are you distracted by outward cares? Then allow yourself a space of quiet wherein you can add to your knowledge of the Good and learn to curb your restlessness. Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. Avail yourself often, then, of this retirement, and so continually renew yourself.

The offender needs pity, not wrath; those who must needs be corrected, should be treated with tact and gentleness; and one must be always ready to learn better. 'The best kind of revenge is, not to become like unto them.'

Give your heart to the trade you have learnt, and draw refreshment from it. Let the rest of your days be spent as one who has whole-heartedly committed his all to the gods and is thenceforth no man's master or slave.

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.