Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish.
Matrimonially speaking, a bridle for the tongue is better than a rein for the heart.
A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.
“Three failures denote uncommon strength. A weakling has not enough grit to fail thrice.”
To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction.
A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.
Anger cannot be dishonest.
Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.
Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
“Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.”
“You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.”
Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.
Very little is needed to make a happy life.
Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.
Be content to seem what you really are.
Men exist for the sake of one another.
Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.
You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.
Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.
He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
"Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul."