Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.

Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.

When men hate or blame you, or say hurtful things about you, look deeply into their hearts and see what kind of men they are. You'll see how unnecessary it is to strain after their good opinion. Yet you must still think kindly of them. they are your neighbors. The gods help them as they do you, by dreams and oracles, to win their hearts' desires.

Thou art a little soul bearing about a corpse.

If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it.

Even while a thing is in the act of coming into existence, some part of it has already ceased to be.