"When you are going to meet with any person, and particularly one of those who are considered to be great, represent to yourself what Socrates or Zeno would have done in such a case, and you will not b…"

"When you have to deal with a man who is angry, remember that he is not angry with you, but with himself; he is only venting his anger on you."

"The true man is one who wills to be a man, and he who wills to be a man is a man."

"For where you find unrest, grief, fear, frustrated desire, failed aversion, jealousy and envy, happiness has no room for admittance. And where values are false, these passions inevitably follow."

"You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will."