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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen, and is not apt to fall.”