“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.”

“I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.”

“That which is really beautiful has no need of anything; not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence or modesty.”

“Anger cannot be dishonest.”

“Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.”

“striid andWthdraw into yourself. Our master-reason asks no more than to act justly, and thereby to achieve calm.”

“Wilt thou, then, my soul, never be good and simple and one and naked, more manifest than the body which surrounds thee?”