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| [Greek]—Bear and forbear. | 1 |
| Contentment, as it is a short road and pleasant, has great delight and little trouble. | 2 |
| Cowardice is the dread of what will happen. | 3 |
| Difficulties are things that show what men are. | 4 |
| Envy is the antagonist of the fortunate. | 5 |
| Every faculty is conserved and increased by its appropriate exercise. | 6 |
| Every place is safe to him who lives with justice. | 7 |
| Forgiveness is better than revenge; for forgiveness is the sign of a gentle nature, but revenge the sign of a savage nature. | 8 |
| Fortify yourself with moderation; for this is an impregnable fortress. | 9 |
| Freedom and slavery, the one is the name of virtue, the other of vice, and both are acts of the will. | 10 |
| He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. | 11 |
| He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God. | 12 |
| He whom the inevitable cannot overcome is unconquerable. | 13 |
| If evil be said of thee, and if it be true, correct thyself; if it be a lie, laugh at it. | 14 |
| It is not he who gives abuse or blows who affronts, but the view we take of these things as insulting. | 15 |
| It is the part of a wise man to resist pleasures, but of a foolish one to be a slave to them. | 16 |
| Let no man think he is loved by any man, when he loves no man. | 17 |
| Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world. | 18 |
| Men are not influenced by things, but by their thoughts about things. | 19 |
| Nothing really pleasant or unpleasant subsists by nature, but all things become so by habit. | 20 |
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| Of pleasures, those which occur most rarely give the greatest delight. | 21 |
| Remember that you are an actor in a drama of such sort as the Author chooses. If short, then in a short one; if long, then in a long one. If it be His pleasure that you should act a poor man, see that you act it well; or a cripple, or a ruler, or a private citizen. For this is your business, to act well the given part; but to choose it, belongs to another. | 22 |
| The characteristic of a philosopher is that he looks to himself for all help or harm. | 23 |
| The first business of the philosopher is to part with self-conceit. | 24 |
| The universe is one great city, full of beloved ones, human and divine, by nature endeared to each other. | 25 |
| There is nothing good or evil save in the will. | 26 |
| Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed. | 27 |
| We are not to lead events, but to follow them. | 28 |
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