That is why Bias jested with those who were going through the perils of a great storm with him and calling on the gods for help: "Shut up," he said, "so that they do not realize that you are here with me.

Everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country.

No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times.

I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.

In the examples that I here bring in of what I have [read], heard, done or said, I have refrained from daring to alter even the smallest and most indifferent circumstances. My conscience falsifies not an iota; for my knowledge I cannot answer.

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them if they will not apply themselves to me.