Let thy chief fort and place of defense be a mind free from passions. A stronger place and better fortified than this, hath no man.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

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

Which is recorded of Socrates, that he was able both to abstain from, and to enjoy, those things which many are too weak to abstain from, and cannot enjoy without excess. But to be strong enough both to bear the one and to be sober in the other is the mark of a man who has a perfect and invincible soul.

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

Suppose that men kill thee, cut thee in pieces, curse thee, what can these things do to prevent thy mind from remaining pure, wise, sober, just?

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.