Praise adds nothing to beauty--makes it neither better nor worse..

Stop talking about what the good man is like, and just be one..

Retire into thyself. The rational principle which rules has this nature, that it is content with itself when it does what is just, and so secures tra….

Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessi….

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature..

The ruling power within, when it is in its natural state, is so related to outer circumstances that it easily changes to accord with what can be done….

Let no act be done without purpose..

Neither worse then nor better is a thing made by being praised..

A good disposition is invincible, if it be genuine..

But if anything in thy own dispositiongives thee pain, who hinders thee from correcting thy opinion? And even if thou art pained because thou art not….

Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished..

The gods gave me a father who ruled over me and rid me of any trace of arrogance and showed me that one can live in a palace without bodyguards, extr….

Gluttony and drunkenness have two evils attendant on them; they make the carcass smart, as well as the pocket..

We are the other of the other.

Short-lived are both the praiser and the praised, and rememberer and the remembered: and all this in a nook of this part of the world; and not even h….

Either an ordered Universe or a medley heaped together mechanically but still an order; or can order subsist in you and disorder in the Whole! And th….

Find joy in simplicity, self-respect, and indifference to what lies between virtue and vice. Love the human race. Follow the divine..

Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature..

From my grandfather's father, I learned to dispense with attendance at public schools, and to enjoy good teachers at home, and to recognize that on s….

It is not the body, nor the personality that is the true self. The true self is eternal. Even on the point of death we can say to ourselves, "my true….

A man does not sin by commission only, but often by omission..