"When you are going to meet with any person, and particularly one of those who are considered to be in a superior condition, represent to yourself what Socrates or Zeno would have done in such circumst…"

"You will do the greatest service to the state if you shall raise, not the roofs of the houses, but the souls of the citizens: for it is better that great souls should dwell in small houses rather than…"

"A man is not hurt by what happens to him, but by his opinion of what happens to him."

"It is better to die of hunger, exempt from grief and fear, than to live in affluence with perturbation."

"Imagine a dog tied to a cart. If the dog wants to follow, it follows, adding its own will to the inevitable. But if the dog refuses to follow, it will be dragged along anyway."