"When you have decided that you are going to take a bath, be careful how you act, and don't make a scene."

"You are a little soul carrying around a corpse, as Epictetus used to say."

"What would it be like to be a donkey? To be driven by a stick, to carry burdens, to have no choice? It would be a simple life, wouldn't it?"

"If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase."

"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."