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.'

So much worse are the consequences of anger than its causes.

Body. Soul. Mind. Sensations: the body. Desires: the soul. Reasoning: the mind.

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

Enough of this wretched life and murmuring and apish tricks. Why art thou disturbed? What is there new in this? What unsettles thee? Is it the form of the thing? Look at it. Or is it the matter? Look at it. But besides these there is nothing. Towards the gods, then, now become at last more simple and better. It is the same whether we examine these things for a hundred years or three.

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.