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.

A man makes no noise over a good deed, but passes on to another as a vine to bear grapes again in season.

The most complete revenge is not to imitate the aggressor.

Does a man shrink from change? Why, what can come into being save by change?

Purge your mind of all aimless and idle thoughts, especially those that pry into the affairs of others or wish them ill.

The mind in itself wants nothing, unless it creates a want for itself; therefore it is both free from perturbation and unimpeded, if it does not perturb and impede itself.

It is right that man should love those who have offended him. He will do so when he remembers that all men are his relations, and that it is through ignorance and involuntarily that they sin,--and then we all die so soon.