No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such

When you are offended at anyone's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. By attending to them, you will forget your anger and learn to live wisely.

If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.

If any man should conceive certain things as being really good, such as prudence, temperance, justice, fortitude, he would not after having first conceived these endure to listen to anything which should not be in harmony with what is really good.

For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason.

It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to fly from other men's badness, which is impossible.

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.