One hand washes the other.

You talk one way, you live another.

I will have a care of being a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the heaviest of all servitudes; and this may be done by moderate desires.

Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.

It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and - even more surprising - it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.

It is well to be born either a king or a fool.

Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged.