Do not go through life like leaf blown from here to there believing whatever you are told.

Whom do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances they encounter day by day. Next, those who are decent and honorable in their intercourse with all men, bearing easily and good naturedly what is offensive in others and being as agreeable and reasonable to their associates as is humanly possible to be... those who hold their pleasures always under control and are not ultimately overcome by their misfortunes... those who are not spoiled by their successes, who do not desert their true selves but hold their ground steadfastly as wise and sober - minded men.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

In every sort of danger there are various ways of winning through, if one is ready to do and say anything whatever.

The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.

Do not be angry with me if I tell you the truth

I am quite ready to acknowledge . . . that I ought to be grieved at death, if I were not persuaded that I am going to other gods who are wise and good (of this I am as certain as I can be of any such matters), and to men departed who are better than those whom I leave behind. And therefore I do not grieve as I might have done, for I have good hope that there is yet something remaining for the dead.