Many men are loved by their enemies, and hated by their friends, and are the friends of their enemies, and the enemies of their friends.

You can't do good if you don't feel good.

Just as bees make honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so do the wise profit from the most difficult of experiences.

We ought to live sacrificing, and singing, and dancing.

In particular I may mention Sophocles the poet, who was once asked in my presence, How do you feel about love, Sophocles? are you still capable of it? to which he replied, Hush! if you please: to my great delight I have escaped from it, and feel as if I had escaped from a frantic and savage master. I thought then, as I do now, that he spoke wisely. For unquestionably old age brings us profound repose and freedom from this and other passions.

To a good man nothing that happens is evil.

Self conquest is the greatest of victories.