To things which you bear with impatience you should accustom yourself, and, by habit you will bear them well.

Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.

No one should feel pride in anything that is not his own.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit

There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.

If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.