Within ten days thou wilt seem a god to those to whom thou art now a beast and an ape, if thou wilt return to thy principles and the worship of reason.

Men despise one another and flatter one another; and men wish to raise themselves above one another, and crouch before one another.

A rational nature admits of nothing but what is serviceable to the rest of mankind.

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

Put from you the belief that 'I have been wronged', and with it will go the feeling. Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.

Always bear this in mind, that very little indeed is necessary for living a happy life.

Live not one's life as though one had a thousand years, but live each day as the last.