If the gods care not for me and for my children, There is a reason for it.

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

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.

...if a man comes to his fortieth year, and has any understanding at all, he has virtually seen - thanks to their similarity - all possible happenings, both past and to come.

It is a shame for the soul to be first to give way in this life, when thy body does not give way.

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

Stop talking about what the good man is like, and just be one.