Quotes

Are you not ashamed that you put your mind in the power of anyone you meet, so that if he reviles you it is disturbed and troubled?

There is no limit to that which has once passed the true measure.

If you take on a part above your strength, you both disgrace yourself in it and neglect the one you could have filled.

In every act observe the things which come first and those which follow it, and so proceed to the act.

If you ever turn outward in order to please someone, know that you have lost your way.

Whoever wishes to be free, let him neither wish for anything nor avoid anything which depends on others.

Immediately prescribe some character and some form to yourself, which you shall observe both when you are alone and when you meet with men.

When a man irritates you, know that it is your own opinion which has irritated you.

You can be invincible, if you enter into no contest in which it is not in your power to conquer.

It is not he who reviles you or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion about these things as being insulting.

Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.

It is the act of an ill-instructed man to blame others for his own bad condition; of one who has begun to be instructed, to lay the blame on himself; and of one whose instruction is completed, neither to blame another nor himself.