Cultivate these, then, for they are wholly within your power: sincerity and dignity; industriousness; and sobriety. Avoid grumbling, be frugal, considerate, and frank; be temperate in manner and speech; carry yourself with authority.

How ridiculous not to flee from one's own wickedness, which is possible, yet endeavor to flee from another's which is not.

Everything is ephemeral, both that which remembers and that which is remembered.

Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.

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

Remember that all is opinion. For what was said by the Cynic Monimus is manifest: and manifest too is the use of what was said, if a man receives what may be got out of it as far as it is true.

I, who have never willfully pained another, have no business to pain myself.