"Nothing is good but what is profitable."

"Do not disturb yourself by picturing your life as a whole; do not embrace in your imagination all the various troubles which are likely to befall you, but rather, at every accession of trouble, ask yo…"

"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it."

"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?"

"Or is it the case that all things flow from the one fountain, as all things are parts of one whole? Or is it the case that all things are parts of one whole, and that they all flow from the one founta…"