If thou wishest to get rid of thy evil propensities, thou must keep far from evil companions.
Such is the blindness, nay the insanity of mankind, that some men are driven to death by the fear of it.
Eternal law has arranged nothing better than this, that it has given us one way in to life, but many ways out.
Plato once wanted to punish one of his slaves and asked his nephew to do the actual whipping for he himself did not own his anger.
A thousand approaches lie open to death.
The stomach begs and clamors, and listens to no precepts. And yet it is not an obdurate creditor; for it is dismissed with small payment if you give it only what you owe, and not as much as you can.
The highest duty and the highest proof of wisdom – that deed and word should be in accord.
The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it.
I have withdrawn not only from men, but from affairs, especially my own affairs; I am working for later generations, writing down some ideas that may be of assistance to them.
For what else is Nature but God and the Divine Reason that pervades the whole universe and all its parts.
Choose as a guide one whom you will admire more when you see him act than when you hear him speak.
The person you are matters more than the place to which you go.
You roll my log, and I will roll yours.
Let us bear with magnanimity whatever it is needful for us to bear.
Refrain from following the example of those whose craving is for attention, not their own improvement.
If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.
Our words should aim not to please, but to help.
That which Fortune has not given, she cannot take away.
Some lack the fickleness to live as they wish and just live as they have begun.
The mind, unless it is pure and holy, cannot see God.