You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.

These individuals have riches just as we say that we "have a fever" when really the fever has us.

You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.

Retire into yourself as much as possible. Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Welcome those whom you are capable of improving. The process is a mutual one. People learn as they teach.

"When some state or other offered Alexander a part of its territory and half of all its property he told them that he hadn't come to Asia with the intention of accepting whatever they cared to give him, but of letting them keep whatever he chose to leave them.' Philosophy, likewise, tells all other occupations: It's not my intention to accept whatever time is leftover from you; you shall have, instead, what I reject.' Give your whole mind to her."

The wise man then followed a simple way of life—which is hardly surprising when you consider how even in this modern age he seeks to be as little encumbered as he possibly can.

If you shape your life according to nature, you will never be poor; if according to people's opinions, you will never be rich.

What view is one likely to take of the state of a person's mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?

The wise man…lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.

Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness.

Every day, therefore, should be regulated as if it were the one that brings up the rear, the one that rounds out and completes our lives.

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