"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, then, is the fruit of these doctrines? It is the same as that of a vine: leaves, then a blossom, then a ripe cluster. So here, first an appearance, then an impulse, then an act. And the fruit is…"

"Men are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of them."

"The price of apathy is to be ruled by evil men."

"As a mark is not set up for the purpose of missing the aim, so neither does the nature of evil exist in the universe."