The man who has a house everywhere has a home nowhere

If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.

The soul is dyed by the thoughts. Dye it then, with a continuous series of such thoughts as these - that where a man can live, there - if he will - he can also live well.

He does not write at all whose poems no man reads

The whole universe is change and life itself is but what you deem it - either gratefully better than or bitterly worse than something else that you alone choose.

From Apollonius I learned freedom of will and undeviating steadiness of purpose; and to look to nothing else, not even for a moment, except to reason.

Let every action aim solely at the common good.