"What, then, is the fruit of these doctrines? Tranquillity, fearlessness, freedom."

"Men are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of them."

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

"If you have a mind to be a philosopher, prepare yourself from the first to be laughed at, to be sneered at by the multitude."

"It is better to starve than to eat meat offered to idols."