When men hate or blame you, or say hurtful things about you, look deeply into their hearts and see what kind of men they are. You'll see how unnecessary it is to strain after their good opinion. Yet you must still think kindly of them. they are your neighbors. The gods help them as they do you, by dreams and oracles, to win their hearts' desires.

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

All that is from the gods is full of Providence.

How ridiculous not to flee from one's own wickedness, which is possible, yet endeavor to flee from another's which is not.

If any man has done wrong, the harm is his own. But perhaps he has not done wrong.

Light may earth's crumbling sand be laid on thee, that dogs may dig thy bones up easily

Take the shortest route. The one that nature planned - to speak and act in the healthiest way. Do that, and be free of pain and stress, free of all calculations and pretension.