Have this thought ever present with thee, when thou losest any outward thing, what thou gainest in its stead; and if this be the more precious, say not, I have suffered loss. (27)

True instruction is this: -to learn to wish that each thing should come to pass as it does. And how does it come to pass? As the Disposer has disposed it. Now …

Concerning the Gods, there are who deny the very existence of the Godhead; others say that it exists, but neither bestirs nor concerns itself nor has forethoug…

If what philosophers say of the kinship of God and Men be true, what remains for men to do but as Socrates did:-never, when asked one's country, to answer, 'I …

Two things can get people to make efforts: if people want to get something, or if they want to get rid of something. Only, in ordinary conditions, without know…

Nec speres aliquid nec extimescas, exarmaueris impotentis iram; at quisquis trepidus pauet uel optat, quod non sit stabilis suique iuris, abiecit clipeum locoq…

You will never lose your nerve. Your life, probably, but never your nerve.'