A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.
Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I was practicing for this, I was training for this.
You lose only the things you have.
As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new.
Crows pick out the eyes of the dead, when the dead have no longer need of them; but flatterers mar the soul of the living, and her eyes they blind.
Everything has two handles,-one by which it may be borne; another by which it cannot.
If you have assumed a character above your strength, you have both acted in this matter in an unbecoming way, and you have neglected that which you might have fulfilled.
In theory it is easy to convince an ignorant person; in actual life, men not only object to offer themselves to be convinced, but hate the man who has convinced them.
What will the world be quite overturned when you die?
What is learned without pleasure is forgotten without remorse.
The soul that companies with virtue is like an ever-flowing source. It is a pure, clear, and wholesome draught, sweet, rich and generous of its store, that injures not, neither destroys.
Confident because of our caution.
Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process.
Shall I show you the sinews of a philosopher? What sinews are those? – A will undisappointed; evils avoided; powers daily exercised; careful resolutions; unerring decisions.
Never look for your work in one place and your progress in another.
Try to enjoy the great festival of life with other men!
Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.
With ills unending strives the putter off.
We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.