Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

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.

The sinner sins against himself; the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action.

The best way of avenging thyself is not to become like the wrong-doer.

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.

Does the light of the lamp shine without losing its splendour until it is extinguished; and shall the truth which is in thee and justice and temperance be extinguished before thy death?

Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back.