Remember to act always as if you were at a symposium. When the food or drink comes around, reach out and take some politely; if it passes you by don't try pulling it back. And if it has not reached yo...
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself.
All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
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 towa...
Practice yourself for heaven's sake in little things and thence proceed to greater.
Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is co...
Here are thieves and robbers and tribunals: and they that are called tyrants, who deem that they have after a fashion power over us, because of the miserable body and what appertains to it. Let us sho...
Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
When you do anything from a clear judgment that it ought to be done, never shrink from being seen to do it, even though the world should misunderstand it; for if you are not acting rightly, shun the a...
In the long run, every man will pay the penalty for his own misdeeds. The man who remembers this will be angry with no one, indignant with no one, revile no one, blame no one, offend no one, hate no o...
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them.
We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.