Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control.

Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Vex not thy spirit at the course of things, they heed not thy vexations

Most of what we say and do is unnecessary: remove the superfluity, and you will have more time and less bother. So in every case one should prompt oneself: 'Is this, or is it not, something necessary?' And the removal of the unnecessary should apply not only to actions but to thoughts also: then no redundant actions either will follow.

...small too even the longest fame thereafter, which is itself subject to a succession of little men who quickly die, and have no knowledge of themselves, let alone of those long dead.

The noblest kind of retribution is not to become like your enemy.

Glory arrives too late when it comes only to one's ashes