Each day provides its own gifts.

Which is recorded of Socrates, that he was able both to abstain from, and to enjoy, those things which many are too weak to abstain from, and cannot enjoy without excess. But to be strong enough both to bear the one and to be sober in the other is the mark of a man who has a perfect and invincible soul.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

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

If this is neither my own badness, nor an effect of my own badness, and the common weal is not injured, why am I troubled about it? And what is the harm to the common weal?

Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

Light may earth's crumbling sand be laid on thee, that dogs may dig thy bones up easily