"When you have done a good deed and another has received it, why do you still ask for a third thing, as fools do, namely, that you may be thought to have done a good deed or that you may be rewarded?"

"The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury."

"To refrain from evil actions is not enough; one must also refrain from evil thoughts."

"If thou art able, make it so that all men shall live as thou wouldst have them live. If not, live thyself as thou wouldst have them live."

"To live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretense."