A good disposition is invincible, if it be genuine.

Now departure from the world of men is nothing to fear, if gods exist: because they would not involve you in any harm. If they do not exist, or if they have no care for humankind, then what is life to me in a world devoid of gods, or devoid of providence? But they do exist, and they do care for humankind: and they have put it absolutely in man's power to avoid falling into the true kinds of harm.

There is change in all things. You yourself are subject to continual change and some decay, and this is common to the entire universe.

My true Self is free. I cannot be contained.

We are born for cooperation, as are the feet, the hands, the eyelids, and the upper and lower jaws.

Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible; life in a palace is possible; therefore even in a palace a right life is possible.

If the gods care not for me and for my children, There is a reason for it.