Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.

So much worse are the consequences of anger than its causes.

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.

Persuade me or prove to me that I am mistaken in thought or deed, and I will gladly change - for it is the truth I seek, and the truth never harmed anyone. Harm comes from persisting in error and clinging to ignorance.

He who does wrong does wrong against himself. He who acts unjustly acts unjustly to himself, because he makes himself bad.

How many after being celebrated by fame have been given up to oblivion; and how many who have celebrated the fame of others have long been dead.

Thou seest how few be the things, the which if a man has at his command his life flows gently on and is divine.