Because your own strength is unequal to a task, do not assume it is beyond the powers of man.

Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you.

Whatever anyone does or says, I must be emerald and keep my colour.

A man should always have these two rules in readiness. First, to do only what the reason of your ruling and legislating faculties suggest for the service of man. Second, to change your opinion whenever anyone at hand sets you right and unsettles you in an opinion, but this change of opinion should come only because you are persuaded that something is just or to the public advantage, not because it appears pleasant or increases your reputation.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Find joy in simplicity, self-respect, and indifference to what lies between virtue and vice. Love the human race. Follow the divine.

Does the light of the lamp shine without losing its splendour until it is extinguished; and shall the truth which is in thee and justice and temperance be extinguished before thy death?