I, who have never willfully pained another, have no business to pain myself.

The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.

There is no misfortune, but to bear it nobly is good fortune.

Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control.

If this is neither my own badness, nor an effect of my own badness, and the common weal is not injured, why am I troubled about it? And what is the harm to the common weal?

There is but one thing of real value - to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men.