Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.

Nothing proceeds from nothingness, as also nothing passes away into non-existence.

Once you have done a man a service, what more reward would you have? Is it not enough to have obeyed the laws of your own nature, without expecting to be paid for it?

Short is the little which remains to thee of life. Live as on a mountain.

You should banish any thoughts of how you may appear to others.

Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.

Consider, for example, and you will find that almost all the transactions in the time of Vespasian differed little from those of the present day. You there find marrying and giving in marriage, educating children, sickness, death, war, joyous holidays, traffic, agriculture, flatterers, insolent pride, suspicions, laying of plots, longing for the death of others, newsmongers, lovers, misers, men canvassing far the consulship and for the kingdom; yet all these passed away, and are nowhere.