Run down the list of those who felt intense anger at something: the most famous, the most unfortunate, the most hated, the most whatever: Where is all that now? Smoke, dust, legend...or not even a legend. Think of all the examples. And how trivial the things we want so passionately are.

Be not unwilling in what thou doest, neither selfish nor unadvised nor obstinate; let not over-refinement deck out thy thought; be not wordy nor a busybody.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Give your heart to the trade you have learnt, and draw refreshment from it. Let the rest of your days be spent as one who has whole-heartedly committed his all to the gods and is thenceforth no man's master or slave.

People generally despise where they flatter, and cringe to those they would gladly overtop; so that truth and ceremony are two things.

The main thing we were made for is to work with others.

The stream of tendency in which all things seek to fulfill the law of their being.