Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it, and having seen it, to find one in himself.

The tyranny imposed on the soul by anger, or fear, or lust, or pain, or envy, or desire, I generally call 'injustice.'

To escape from evil we must be made as far as possible like God; and the resemblance consists in becoming just and holy and wise.

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity - I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only a euphemism for folly.

Other people are likely not to be aware that those who pursue philosophy aright study nothing but dying and being dead. Now if this is true, it would be absurd to be eager for nothing but this all their lives, and then to be troubled when that came for which they had all along been eagerly practicing.

Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.