Be not dazzled by beauty, but look for those inward qualities which are lasting.

Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.

The body is not a permanent dwelling, but a sort of inn which is to be left behind when one perceives that one is a burden to the host.

Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.

Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.

To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading.

The abundance of books is distraction