No phase of life, whether public or private, can be free from duty.

No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

Nothing is so great an adversary to those who make it their business to please as expectation.

For while we are enclosed in these confinements of the body, we perform as a kind of duty the heavy task of necessity; for the soul from heaven has been cast down from its dwelling on high and sunk, as it were, into the earth, a place just the opposite to godlike nature and eternity. But I believe that the immortal gods have sown souls in human bodies so there might exist beings to guard the world and after contemplating the order of heaven, might imitate it by their moderation and steadfastness in life.

Strain every nerve to gain your point.

Let the punishment match the offense.

Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful.