Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible; life in a palace is possible; therefore even in a palace a right life is possible.

Once you have done a man a service, what more reward would you have? Is it not enough to have obeyed the laws of your own nature, without expecting to be paid for it?

If any man should conceive certain things as being really good, such as prudence, temperance, justice, fortitude, he would not after having first conceived these endure to listen to anything which should not be in harmony with what is really good.

No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

A lucky chance is constant in nothing but inconstancy.

You are making an inopportune rejection of what Nature has given you today, if all your mind is set on what men will say of you tomorrow.