There is an organic affinity between joyousness and tenderness, and their companionship in the saintly life need in no way occasion surprise.
I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.
Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.
Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.
I think you're working and learning until you die.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.
I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.
It is not so much what happens to you as how you think about what happens." Epictetus
The time when you should most of all withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.
Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
Never say that I have taken it, only that I have given it back.
He who least needs tomorrow, will most gladly greet tomorrow.
My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
