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.

Consider in what condition both in body and soul a man should be when he is overtaken by death; and consider the shortness of life, the boundless abyss of time past and future, the feebleness of all matter.

Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.

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.

Receive wealth or prosperity without arrogance; and be ready to let it go.

To no man make yourself a boon companion: Your joy will be less but less will be your grief

A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something.