Death and life, success and failure, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty, all these happen to good and bad alike, and they are neither noble nor shameful - and hence neither good nor bad.

Do not expect Plato's ideal republic; be satisfied with even the smallest step forward, and consider this no small achievement.

Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is practicable; and to make this custom the more significant, practice it first upon yourself.

Leave the wrong done by another where the wrong arose.

Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing.

Not to waste time on nonsense. Not to be taken in by conjurors and hoodoo artists with their talk about incantations and exorcism and all the rest of it. Not to be obsessed with quail-fighting or other crazes like that.

Live with the gods. And he does so who constantly shows them that his soul is satisfied with what is assigned to him.