We ought so to behave to one another as to avoid making enemies of our friends, and at the same time to make friends of our enemies.
A stranger, if just, is not only to be preferred before a countryman, but a kinsman.
Declining from the public ways, walk in unfrequented paths.
Wealth is a weak anchor, and glory cannot support a man; this is the law of God, that virtue only is firm, and cannot be shaken by a tempest.
Let no one persuade you by word or deed to do or say whatever is not best for you.
Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.