-It is in your power to live free from all compulsion in the greatest tranquility of mind, even if all the world cry out against you as much as they choose.
-The perfection of moral character consists in this, in passing every day as if it were the last, and in being neither violently excited nor torpid nor playing the hypocrite.
-When you have done a good act and another has received it, why do you look for a third thing besides these, as fools do, either to have the reputation of having done a good act or to obtain a return?
-Throw away the thought of how you might seem to others, and be content if you live the rest of your life in the manner that your nature wills.
-Where is happiness? In the principles that relate to good and bad: the belief that there is nothing good for man that does not make him just, temperate, manly, free; and that there is nothing bad that does not do the contrary to what has been mentioned.
-On the occasion of every act ask yourself: will I regret it?
-It is your duty to be a good man.
-Whatever man you meet with, immediately say to yourself: what opinions has this man about good and bad?
-It is a shame to be surprise if the fig tree produces figs.
-You must blame nobody. For if you can, correct that which is the cause; but if you cannot do this, correct at least the thing itself; but if you cannot do even this, of what use is it to you to find fault?
-For what purpose then do you exist? To enjoy pleasure?
-It is in my power to let no badness in this soul.
-Nothing will stand in the way of your acting justly and soberly and considerately.
-Different things delight different people.
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