Quotes

Take care of what you have been given as of something entrusted to you, not as something that is yours forever.

Do not call yourself a philosopher; show your principles by your actions.

If you would improve, be content to be thought foolish by others.

Be not elated at any excellence which belongs to another.

If you are given the part of a beggar, play that part well too.

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.

Let death and exile and every other thing which appears dreadful be daily before your eyes, but most of all death.

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 what you do is right, why are you afraid of those who will find fault wrongly?

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