Know the joy of life by piling good deed on good deed until no rift or cranny appears between them.

Man must be arched and buttressed from within, else the temple wavers to the dust.

It doesn't hurt me unless I interpret its happening as harmful to me. I can choose not to.

Where a man can live, he can also live well.

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; and to be always the same, in sharp pains, on the occasion of the loss of a child, and in long illness.

Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.

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