All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.

They envy the distinction I have won; let them therefore, envy my toils, my honesty, and the methods by which I gained it.

Neither soldiers nor money can defend a king but only friends won by good deeds, merit, and honesty.

One can ever assume to be what he is not, and to conceal what he is.

He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.

Souls that have lived in virtue are in general happy, and when separated from the irrational part of their nature, and made clean from all matter, have communion with the gods and join them in the governing of the whole world. Yet even if none of this happiness fell to their lot, virtue itself, and the joy and glory of virtue, and the life that is subject to no grief and no master are enough to make happy those who have set themselves to live according to virtue and have achieved it.

In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.