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

Say to yourself in the early morning: I shall meet today ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. All of these things have come upon them through ignorance of real good and ill... I can neither be harmed by any of them, for no man will involve me in wrong, nor can I be angry with my kinsman or hate him; for we have come into the world to work together.

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

Hast thou reason? I have. Why then dost not thou use it? For if this does its own work, what else dost thou wish?

They know not how many things are signified by the words stealing, sowing, buying, keeping quiet, seeing what ought to be done; for this is not effected by the eyes, but by another kind of vision.

Life is a stranger's sojourn, a night at an inn.

The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.