“Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.”

“Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?”

“It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance”

“If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.”

“What you shun enduring yourself, attempt not to impose on others. You shun slavery- beware enslaving others! If you can endure to do that, one would think you had been once upon a time a slave yourself. For vice has nothing in common with virtue, nor Freedom with slavery. ”

“Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.”

“It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous -- even death is terrible only if we fear it.”