"Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one."

"When you have done a good deed and another has received it, why do you still ask for a third thing, as fools do, namely, that you may be thought to have done a good deed or that you may be rewarded?"

"Live out your life in peace, be silent, and be content with what is given you."

"If thou art able, make it so that all men shall live as thou wouldst have them live. If not, live thyself as thou wouldst have them live."

"Every soul, the philosopher says, is unwillingly deprived of truth."