"For desire, suspend it completely for now. Because if you desire something outside your control, you are bound to be disappointed; and even things we do control, which under other circumstances would …"

"Remember that if you are doing something for your own good, you must not be ashamed of it, even if the mob is going to misinterpret it."

"Freedom and slavery, the one is the name of virtue, and the other of vice, and both are acts of the will."

"An uninstructed person will lay the fault of his own bad condition upon others. To begin to be instructed, he will lay the fault on himself. When he is fully instructed, he will blame neither others n…"

"Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think more accurately, to be less of a slave to your passions, to be more tranquil and self-possessed. Speeches are one t…"