Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.
Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.
A ship ought not to be held by one anchor, nor life by a single hope.
Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.
Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.
Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.
You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.
Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.
Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.
If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it..
If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.
Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
