I'm going to be meeting with people today who talk too much - people who are selfish, egotistical, ungrateful. But I won't be surprised or disturbed, for I can't imagine a world without such people.

Always run to the short way; and the short way is the natural: accordingly say and do everything in conformity with the soundest reason. For such a purpose frees a man from trouble, and warfare, and all artifice and ostentatious display.

Everything is mere opinion.

Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest been lived already, or is impossible to see. The span we live is small - small as the corner of the earth in which we live it.

Dress not thy thoughts in too fine a raiment. And be not a man of superfluous words or superfluous deeds.

Everything - a horse, a vine - is created for some duty... For what task, then, were you yourself created?

Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.