If you find anything better than justice, truth, temperance and fortitude, turn to it with all your soul. But if you find nothing better, give place to nothing else.

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  Whatever anyone does or says, I must be good.

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  Nothing happens to any man which he is not formed by nature to bear.

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  Retire into yourself. The reason that rules you is content with itself when it does what is just, and so secures tranquillity.

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  He who does wrong does wrong against himself.

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  The best way to avenge yourself is not to be like the wrongdoer.

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  Throw away the thought of how you shall seem to others, and be content if you live the rest of your life as your nature wills.

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