Quotes

What is divine is full of Providence. Even chance is not divorced from nature, from the inweaving and enfolding of things governed by Providence. Everything proceeds from it. (Hays translation)

A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all – that is myself.

This Being of mine, whatever it really is, consists of a little flesh, a little breath, and the part which governs.

This that I am, whatever it be, is mere flesh and a little breathe and the ruling Reason

Whatever this is that I am, it is flesh and a little spirit and an intelligence.

We are all made for mutual assistance, as the feet, the hands, and the eyelids, as the rows of the upper and under teeth, from whence it follows that clashing and opposition is perfectly unnatural.

Say to yourself in the early morning: I shall meet today inquisitive, ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. All these things have come upon them through ignorance of real good and ill.

When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. They are like this because they can't tell good from evil.

He was a man who looked at what ought to be done, not to the reputation which is got by a man's ac

Self-control and resistance to distractions. Optimism in adversity—especially illness.

Not to display anger or other emotions. To be free of passion and yet full of love. (Hays translation)

Of Fronto, to how much envy and fraud and hypocrisy the state of a tyrannous king is subject unto, and how they who are commonly called [Eupatridas Gk.], i.e. nobly born, are in some sort incapable, or void of natural affection.

From Apollonius, true liberty, and unvariable steadfastness, and not to regard anything at all, though never so little, but right and reason: and always..that it was possible for the same man to be both vehement and remiss: a man not subject to be vexed, and offended with the incapacity of his scholars and auditors in his lectures and expositions.

Her reverence for the divine, her generosity, her inability not only to do wrong but even to conceive of doing it. And the simple way she lived—not in the least like the rich.

Mercy often inflicts death.

Silence is learned by the many misfortunes of life.

No one has had gods so favourable to him that he can promise himself a morrow.

A good mind is a lord of a kingdom.

Difficulties strengthen the mind as labor does the body.

We live as it were by chance, and by chance we are governed.