ID	Maxim	Whom
1	"""Above all, make this your business: learn how to feel joy."""	Seneca 
2	Allow not sleep to close your wearied eyes until you have reckoned up each daytime deed.	Epictetus
3	"""Although you are not yet a Socrates, you should live as someone who at least wants to be a Socrates."""	Epictetus
4	Anger and frustration hurt us more than the things we are annoyed about hurt us.	Marcus Aurelius
5	"""At daybreak, when reluctant to rise, have this thought ready in your mind: 'I am getting up to do a human being's work.'"""	Marcus Aurelius
6	"""Carry out each act as if it were the last of your life, freed from all randomness and passionate deviation from the rule of reason and from pretence and self-love and dissatisfaction with what has been allotted to you."""	Marcus Aurelius
7	"""Come to your journey's end with a good grace, just as an olive falls when it is fully ripe, praising the earth that bore it and grateful to the tree that gave it growth."""	Marcus Aurelius
8	Does the captain of a ship manage it better by not attending?	Epictetus
9	"""Don't wait for Plato's Republic! Rather, be content if one tiny thing makes some progress, and reflect on the fact that what results from this tiny thing is no tiny thing at all!"""	Marcus Aurelius 
10	Every day I plead the case against myself as judge.	Seneca
11	"""Every hour focus your mind attentively on the performance of the task in hand, with dignity, human sympathy, benevolence and freedom, and leave aside all other thoughts. You will achieve this, if you perform each action as if it were your last."""	Marcus Aurelius
12	Fate permitting.	Marcus Aurelius
13	"""For I am not eternity, but a man: a part of the whole, as an hour is of the day. I must come like an hour, and like an hour must pass away."""	Epictectus
14	"""For why should I be afraid of any of my mistakes, when I can say: beware of doing that again, and this time I pardon you."""	Seneca
15	"""From first to last review your acts and then reprove yourself for wretched [or cowardly] acts, but rejoice in those done well."""	Epictetus
16	Happy the man who improves other people not merely when he is in their presence but even when he is in their thoughts.	Seneca
17	"""He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things he has not, but rejoices for those which he has."""	Epictectus
18	He who receives a benefit with gratitude repays the first installment on his debt.	Seneca
19	Here and now. 	Anon
20	How tiny a fragment of boundless and abysmal time has been appointed to each man! For in a moment it is lost in eternity.	Marcus Aurelius
21	"""I am not eternal, but a human being; a part of the whole, as an hour is of the day. Like an hour I must come and, like an hour, pass away."""	Epictetus
22	"""If you wish to be loved, love. """	Seneca
23	"""In general, therefore, if you want to do something make a habit of it; if you want not to do something, refrain from doing it, and accustom yourself to something else instead."""	Epictetus
24	It is in times of security that the spirit should be preparing itself to deal with difficult times.	Seneca
25	"""It is my good luck that, although this has happened to me, I can bear it without getting upset, neither crushed by the present nor afraid of the future."""	Marcus Aurelius
26	It is not death that a man should fear. But he should fear never beginning to live.	Marcus Aurelius
27	It is possible for you to retreat into yourself whenever you please. 	Marcus Aurelius
28	It is within my power to derive benefit from every experience. 	Epictetus
29	It seemed so to him.	Epictetus
30	"""Keep before your eyes day by day death and exile, and everything that seems catastrophic, but most of all death; and then you will never have any abject thought, nor will you crave anything excessively."""	Epictetus
31	"""Kindness is an irresistible force, so long as it is genuine. """	Marcus Aurelius
32	"""Life is long enough, and it has been given in sufficiently generous measure to allow the accomplishment of the very greatest things if the whole of it is well invested."""	Seneca
33	"""Life is neither good or bad, it is the space for both good and bad."""	Seneca
34	"""Make a decision to quit thinking of things as insulting, and you anger immediately disappears."""	Marcus Aurelius
35	Men have come into being for one another; so either educate them or put up with them.	Marcus Aurelius
36	My business is to use what does turn up with diligence and skill. 	Epictetus
37	"""No good thing is pleasant to possess, without friends to share it. """	Seneca
38	"""No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be the emerald, my colour undiminished."""	Marcus Aurelius
39	"""No one can stop you from undertaking action with justice, self- discipline, and practical wisdom."""	Marcus Aurelius
40	No tree becomes rooted and sturdy unless many a wind assails it.	Seneca
41	Nothing brings happiness unless it also brings calm. 	Seneca
42	Nothing is as effective in creating greatness of mind as being able to examine methodically and truthfully everything that presents itself in life.	Marcus Aurelius
43	Perform every action as though it were your last.	Marcus Aurelius
44	"""Possibly the philosophers say what is contrary to opinion, but assuredly not what is contrary to reason."""	Epictetus
45	Rational beings exists for the sake of one another. Thus the leading principle in the constitution of man is concern for the good of others.	Marcus Aurelius
46	"""Say to yourself at daybreak: I shall come across the meddling busy- body, the ungrateful, the overbearing, the treacherous, the envious, and the antisocial. All this has befallen them because they cannot tell good from evil."""	Marcus Aurelius
47	Seek not for events to happen as you wish but wish events to happen as they do and your life will go smoothly and serenely.	Epictetus
48	The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.	Marcus Aurelius
49	"""The marks of a proficient are, that he censures no one, praises no one, blames no one, accuses no one, says nothing concerning himself as being anybody, or knowing anything."""	Epictetus
50	"""The marks of the proficient person are that he censures no one, praises no one, blames no one, accuses no one, says nothing concerning himself as being anybody, or knowing anything."""	Epictectus
51	"""The nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them."""	Marcus Aurelius
52	The philosopher's school is a doctor's clinic.	Epictetus
53	The thing that matters the most is not what you bear but how you bear it.	Seneca
54	"""The willing are led by fate, the reluctant dragged. """	Cleanthes
55	"""The wise man looks to the purpose of all actions, not their consequences; beginnings are in our power but Fortune judges the outcome, and I do not grant her a verdict upon me."""	Seneca
56	There is a need for someone as a standard against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler to do it against you will not make the crooked straight.	Seneca
57	There is usually a lot to learn before any sure-footed moral judgments can be made about other people's actions.	Marcus Aurelius
58	"""To let one's mind go lax is, in effect, to lose it."""	Musonius Rufus
59	Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be - be one. 	Marcus Aurelius
60	"""We were born for cooperation, like feet, like hands, like eyelids, like the rows of upper and lower teeth. So to work in opposition to one another is against nature."""	Marcus Aurelius
61	What bad habit have you put right today? Which fault did you take a stand against? In what respect are you better?	Seneca
62	What thing is done better by those who are inattentive?	Epictetus
63	What would have Socrates or Zeno done in this situation? 	Epictetus
64	"""What, then, is to be done? To make the best of what is in our power, and take the rest as it naturally happens."""	Epictectus
65	Whatever has been long anticipated comes as a lighter blow.	Seneca
66	"""When you rise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive; to breathe, think, to enjoy, to love."""	Marcus Aurelius
67	"""Whenever, as the sun rises, you feel unwilling to get up, have this thought ready to hand: I rise to do the work of a human being."""	Marcus Aurelius
68	Where did I go wrong? What did I do? And what duty is left undone?	Epictetus
69	Will your fate. 	Epictetus
70	"""Yes, indeed, I shall use the old road, but if I find a shorter and easier one I shall open it up. The men who pioneered the old routes are leaders, not our masters. Truth lies open to every one. There has yet to be a monopoly of truth. And there is plenty of it left for future generations too."""	Seneca
71	You see how few are the things that a person needs to master if he is to live a tranquil and divine life.	Marcus Aurelius
72	I endured incredible trials because I could not endure myself.	Seneca
73	"""Let us take in with our mind the worst thing that can possibly happen, if we don't want to be mastered by it."""	Seneca
74	"""If someone is able to convince me and show me that what I do or think is not right, I will gladly change; for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever injured. But those who abide in their error and ignorance are injured."""	Marcus Aurelius
75	"""No one can live happily who has regard to himself alone and transforms everything into a question of his own utility; you must live for your neighbour, if you would live for yourself."""	Seneca
76	No one is a laughing-stock who laughs first at himself.	Seneca
77	"""Just as it is not the last drop that stops the water-clock but every drop that has previously fallen, so the last hour when we cease to exist is not the only one to cause death but the only one to complete it: we reach death then but we have been coming to it for a long time."""	Seneca
78	"""You are mistaken if you think that luxury, neglect of good manners, and other vices of which each man accuses the age in which he lives, are especially characteristic of our own epoch; no, they are the vices of mankind and not of the times."""	Seneca
79	"What decides whether a sum of money is good? The money is not going to tell you; it must be the faculty that makes use of such impressions , reason."	Epictectus
80	"""Being attached to many things, we are weighed down and dragged along with them."""	Epictectus
81	"""What should we do then? Make the best use of what is in our power, and treat the rest in accordance with its nature."""	Epictectus
82	"""What should we have ready at hand in a situation like this? The knowledge of what is mine and what is not mine, what I can and cannot do."""	Epictectus
83	"I will throw you into prison. 'Correction , it is my body you will throw there.'"	Epictectus
84	"""I have to die. If it is now, well then I die now; if later, then now I will take my lunch, since the hour for lunch has arrived , and dying I will tend to later."""	Epictectus
85	Education has no goal more important than bringing our preconception of what is reasonable and unreasonable in alignment with nature.	Epictectus
86	"""Consider at what price you sell your integrity; but please, for God's sake, don't sell it cheap."""	Epictectus
87	"""What is the goal of virtue, after all, except a life that flows smoothly?"""	Epictectus
88	"""If from the moment they get up in the morning they adhere to their ideals, eating and bathing like a person of integrity, putting their principles into practice in every situation they face , the way a runner does when he applies the principles of running, or a singer those of musicianship , that is where you will see true progress embodied, and find someone who has not wasted their time making the journey here from home."""	Epictectus
89	"""What else are tragedies but the ordeals of people who have come to value externals, tricked out in tragic verse?"""	Epictetus
90	"""If a man objects to truths that are all too evident, it is no easy task finding arguments that will change his mind. This is proof neither of his own strength nor of his teacher's weakness. When someone caught in an argument hardens to stone, there is just no more reasoning with them."""	Epictectus
91	"""Most of us dread the deadening of the body and will do anything to avoid it. About the deadening of the soul, however, we don't care one iota."""	Epictectus
92	"""We pity the mentally retarded, and students with learning difficulties. But if somebody's sense of shame and respect are dead, we will actually call this determination."""	Epictectus
93	"""And so it is inexcusable for man to begin and end where the beasts do. He should begin where they do, but only end where nature left off dealing with him; which is to say, in contemplation and understanding."""	Epictectus
94	"""But my nose is running! What do you have hands for, idiot, if not to wipe it? But how is it right that there be running noses in the first place? Instead of thinking up protests, wouldn't it be easier just to wipe your nose?"""	Epictectus
95	"""For what does reason purport to do? ""Establish what is true, eliminate what is false and suspend judgement in doubtful cases."" What else does reason prescribe? ""To accept the consequence of what has been admitted to be correct."""""	Epictectus
96	"""Why are we still lazy, indifferent and dull? Why do we look for excuses to avoid training and exercising our powers of reason? ""Look, if I err in such matters I haven't killed my father, have I?” No, fool , for there was no father there for you to kill! What did you do instead? You made the only mistake you had the opportunity to make."""	Epictectus
97	"""I mean, are these the only crimes, killing your father and burning down the Capitol? But to use one's impressions recklessly, carelessly and at random, to fail to analyse an argument as either valid proof or fallacy, and, in a word, to fail to see in the act of question and answer what agrees with your position and what conflicts , is nothing wrong in all of that?"""	Epictectus
98	"""Don't confuse qualities that are found in the same writer only incidentally. If Plato had been strong and handsome, should I also try to become strong and handsome, as if this were essential to philosophy, since there was one particular philosopher who combined philosophy with good looks?"""	Epictectus
99	"""Ask me what the real good in man's case is, and I can only say that it is the right kind of moral character."""	Epictectus
100	"""Doctors keep their scalpels and other instruments handy, for emergencies. Keep your philosophy ready too, ready to understand heaven and earth."""	Marcus Aurelius
101	"""It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own."""	Marcus Aurelius
102	"""However much you possess there's someone else who has more, and you'll be fancying yourself to be short of things you need to the exact extent to which you lag behind him."""	Seneca
103	Associate with people who are likely to improve you. Welcome those who are capable of improving. The process is a mutual one: men learn as they teach.	Seneca
104	"""Let us therefore go all out to make the most of friends, since no one can tell how long we shall have the opportunity."""	Seneca
105	"""Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them."""	Marcus Aurelius
106	"""You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."""	Marcus Aurelius
107	"""The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts."""	Marcus Aurelius
108	"""Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."""	Marcus Aurelius
109	"""Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one."""	Marcus Aurelius
110	"""Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart."""	Marcus Aurelius
111	"""When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ..."""	Marcus Aurelius
112	"""The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury."""	Marcus Aurelius
113	"""If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."""	Marcus Aurelius
114	"""Our life is what our thoughts make it."""	Marcus Aurelius
115	"""It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."""	Marcus Aurelius
116	"""If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it."""	Marcus Aurelius
117	"""The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts."""	Marcus Aurelius
118	"""If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed."""	Marcus Aurelius
119	"""Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking."""	Marcus Aurelius
120	"""The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."""	Marcus Aurelius
121	"""I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others."""	Marcus Aurelius
122	"""Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present."""	Marcus Aurelius
123	"""Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears."""	Marcus Aurelius
124	"""The best revenge is not to be like your enemy."""	Marcus Aurelius
125	"""How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it."""	Marcus Aurelius
126	"""The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are."""	Marcus Aurelius
127	"""When another blames you or hates you, or people voice similar criticisms, go to their souls, penetrate inside and see what sort of people they are. You will realize that there is no need to be racked with anxiety that they should hold any particular opinion about you."""	Marcus Aurelius
128	"""Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look."""	Marcus Aurelius
129	"""Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness , all of them due to the offenders' ignorance of what is good or evil."""	Marcus Aurelius
130	"""Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?"""	Marcus Aurelius
131	"""How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy."""	Marcus Aurelius
132	"Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not 'This is misfortune,' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'"	Marcus Aurelius
133	"""You are a little soul carrying about a corpse."""	Epictetus
134	"""Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too."""	Marcus Aurelius
135	"""Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them."""	Marcus Aurelius
136	"""You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."""	Marcus Aurelius
137	"""The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts."""	Marcus Aurelius
138	"""Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."""	Marcus Aurelius
139	"""Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one."""	Marcus Aurelius
140	"""Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart."""	Marcus Aurelius
141	"""When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ..."""	Marcus Aurelius
142	"""The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury."""	Marcus Aurelius
143	"""If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."""	Marcus Aurelius
144	"""Our life is what our thoughts make it."""	Marcus Aurelius
145	"""It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."""	Marcus Aurelius
146	"""If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it."""	Marcus Aurelius
147	"""The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts."""	Marcus Aurelius
148	"""If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed."""	Marcus Aurelius
149	"""Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking."""	Marcus Aurelius
150	"""The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane."""	Marcus Aurelius
151	"""I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others."""	Marcus Aurelius
152	"""Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present."""	Marcus Aurelius
153	"""Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears."""	Marcus Aurelius
154	"""The best revenge is not to be like your enemy."""	Marcus Aurelius
155	"""How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it."""	Marcus Aurelius
156	"""The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are."""	Marcus Aurelius
157	"""When another blames you or hates you, or people voice similar criticisms, go to their souls, penetrate inside and see what sort of people they are. You will realize that there is no need to be racked with anxiety that they should hold any particular opinion about you."""	Marcus Aurelius
158	"""Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look."""	Marcus Aurelius
159	"""Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness , all of them due to the offenders' ignorance of what is good or evil."""	Marcus Aurelius
160	"""Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?"""	Marcus Aurelius
161	"""How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy."""	Marcus Aurelius
162	"Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not 'This is misfortune,' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'"	Marcus Aurelius
163	"""You are a little soul carrying about a corpse."""	Epictetus
164	"""Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too."""	Marcus Aurelius
165	"Some things are within your power, and some are not."	Epictetus
166	"If it concerns anything beyond your power, it is nothing to you."	Epictetus
167	"Restrain desire. Where it is necessary for you to pursue something, do so with discretion and moderation."	Epictetus
168	Reject only the undesirable things which you can control.	Epictetus
169	"With regard to things which delight the mind, remind yourself of what nature they are."	Epictetus
170	"When you perform any action, remind yourself of what nature the action is."	Epictetus
171	"You are not disturbed by things. Your views on those things disturb you. Do not attribute your distress to others, but to yourself and to your own views."	Epictetus
172	Do not feel pride in any achievement not immediately your own.	Epictetus
173	Things will not always happen as you want them to happen. Realize that they happen as they happen.	Epictetus
174	"Sickness harms the body, not the will. Say this to yourself with regard to everything that happens."	Epictetus
175	"Upon every misfortune, turn toward yourself and ask which of your faculties may offer a solution. If pain, then strength; if insult, then patience. Existence will not overwhelm you."	Epictetus
176	"It is better to die of hunger, exempt from grief and fear, than to live in affluence with perturbation."	Epictetus
177	There is a price paid for peace and tranquility; and nothing is to be had for nothing.	Epictetus
178	Be content to show foolishness and dullness on the exterior. Do not desire to be thought to know anything.	Epictetus
179	"If you wish your friends to live forever, you are foolish, for you wish things to be in your power which are not so. Exercise only what is in your power."	Epictetus
180	Remember that you must behave as at a banquet. Is anything brought round to you? Put out your hand and take a moderate share. Does it pass by you? Do not stop it. Has it not yet come? Wait till it reaches you.	Epictetus
181	"In conversation, do not disdain to accommodate yourself to others and, if need be, to groan with them. Take heed not to groan inwardly."	Epictetus
182	You are an actor in a drama. Act well the part.	Epictetus
183	You are unconquerable if you enter into no combat in which it is not in your own power to conquer.	Epictetus
184	"When you see anyone eminent in honors or power, be careful not to be confused by appearances and to pronounce them happy."	Epictetus
185	"Do not desire to be held in high regard by your peers, but to be free. The only way to this is a disregard of things which do not within our own power."	Epictetus
186	"Remember that it is not the person who gives abuse or blows, who insults, but the view we take of these things as insulting. When you are provoked it is your own opinion which provokes you."	Epictetus
187	"Let death and exile, and all other things which appear terrible, be daily before your eyes. You will never entertain an abject thought, nor covet anything."	Epictetus
188	"If you have a desire towards something, prepare yourself from the first to have the multitude laugh and sneer. If you are persistent, those persons who at first ridiculed will afterwards admire you."	Epictetus
189	"If you ever happen to turn your attention to externals, for the pleasure of anyone, you have ruined your scheme of life. Be content, then, in everything."	Epictetus
190	"Is anyone preferred before you at anything? If these things are good, you ought to rejoice that they have them; and if they are evil, do not be grieved that you do not have them."	Epictetus
191	"If a person had delivered up your body to some passer-by, you would be angry."	Epictetus
192	"Do you feel no shame in delivering up your own mind to any reviler, to be confounded."	Epictetus
193	"In every affair consider what precedes and what follows, and then undertake it. Otherwise you will begin careless of the consequences, and when these are developed, you will desist."	Epictetus
194	"You will be everything, but nothing in earnest. You mimic all you see, and one thing after another is sure to please you, but is out of favor as soon as it becomes familiar. You have never entered upon anything considerately, but carelessly, and with a halfway zeal. Consider first what the matter is, and what your own nature is able to bear. You must be one thing. You must cultivate your own reason and apply yourself to things within you."	Epictetus
195	"Begin by prescribing to yourself some character and demeanor, one you may preserve both alone and in company."	Epictetus
196	"Be silent, or speak what is needful, and in few words. You may enter into discourse sometimes, when occasion calls for it. Let it not run into any of the common subjects, and especially not on other people, so as either to blame, or praise, or make comparisons."	Epictetus
197	"Let not your laughter be loud, frequent, or abundant."	Epictetus
198	Avoid taking oaths as far as you are able.	Epictetus
199	"Avoid public and vulgar entertainment. If ever an occasion calls you to them, keep your attention upon your mind, that you may not slide into vulgarity."	Epictetus
200	Provide things relating to the body no further than absolute need requires. Cut off those things which lean toward show and luxury.	Epictetus
201	"Be not uncharitable or severe to those who seem evil, nor boast that you yourself live otherwise."	Epictetus
202	"If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you. Answer: ""They were ignorant of my other faults, else they would not have mentioned these alone.."""	Epictetus
203	"It is not necessary for you to appear often at public spectacles. If ever there is a proper occasion for you to be there, wish things to be only just as they are, for thus nothing will go against you. Abstain from derision and violent emotions. And when you come away, do not discourse a great deal on what has passed."	Epictetus
204	"Be not prompt or ready to attend private functions. If you must attend, preserve your dignity, and yet avoid making yourself disagreeable."	Epictetus
205	"When you are going before anyone in power, the doors may not be opened to you, and they may not notice you. If, with all this, it be your duty to go, bear what happens."	Epictetus
206	"In company, avoid a frequent and excessive mention of your own actions and dangers. Avoid attempts to excite laughter, for this may slide you into vulgarity and may lower you in the esteem of your acquaintances. Approaches to indecent discourse are likewise dangerous."	Epictetus
207	"If you are enticed by promised pleasure, let the affair wait your leisure. Bring to your mind both points of time—that in which you shall enjoy the pleasure, and that after you have enjoyed it."	Epictetus
208	"When you do anything from a clear judgment that it ought to be done, do it, even though the world should misunderstand it. If you are not acting rightly, shun the action itself. If you are, why fear those who wrongly censure you."	Epictetus
209	"At a feast, to choose the largest share is suitable to the bodily appetite, but inconsistent with the social spirit. When you eat with another, value the bodies of those things which are set before you, and your courtesy toward your host."	Epictetus
210	"If you have assumed any character beyond your strength, you have lost one which you might have supported."	Epictetus
211	"Take care not to hurt the ruling faculty of your mind. If you were to guard against this in every action, you should enter upon those actions more safely."	Epictetus
212	"It is a mark of ignorance to spend much time in things relating to the body, as to be immoderate in exercises, and in eating and drinking. These things should be done with discretion and your main strength be applied to your reason."	Epictetus
213	"When any person does ill by you, or speaks ill of you, remember that they act or speak from an impression that it is right for them to do so. If they judge from false appearances, they are the person hurt and the person deceived. You will bear with a person who reviles you, for you will say upon every occasion, ""It seemed so to them.."	Epictetus
214	"These reasonings have no logical connection: ""I am richer than you, therefore I am your superior."" ""I am more eloquent than you, therefore I am your superior."" The true logical connection is this: ""I am richer than you, therefore my possessions must exceed yours."" ""I am more eloquent than you, therefore my style must surpass yours."" But you, after all, consist neither in property nor in style."	Epictetus
215	"Does anyone bathe hastily? Do not say that they do it ill, but hastily. Does anyone drink much wine? Do not say that they do ill, but that they drink a great deal. For unless you perfectly understand their motives, how should you know if they act ill? Thus you will not risk yielding to any appearances except those you fully comprehend."	Epictetus
216	"Do not discourse how people ought to eat, but eat as you ought. Do not make an exhibition before the ignorant of your principles."	Epictetus
217	"When you have learned to nourish your body frugally, do not build yourself upon it. If you drink water, refrain from saying upon every occasion, ""I drink water.."""	Epictetus
218	"Consider how much more frugal are the poor are, and how much more patient of hardship."	Epictetus
219	The vulgar look outwards for all help or harm.	Epictetus
220	The philosopher looks inwards for all help or harm.	Epictetus
221	"Those proficient praise no one, blame no one, and accuse no one. They say nothing concerning their self as being anybody or knowing anything."	Epictetus
222	"When you are hindered, accuse yourself. If you are praised, smile to yourself at the person who praises you."	Epictetus
223	"Whatever rules you have adopted, abide by them as laws."	Epictetus
224	"Do not regard what anyone says of you, for this is no concern of yours."	Epictetus
225	"How long will you delay to demand of yourself improvements? You have received the principles with which you ought to be conversant; and you have been conversant with them. If you will be negligent and slothful, you will accomplish nothing and, living and dying, remain of vulgar mind."	Epictetus
226	"This instant, then, think yourself worthy of living as a realized human being. Let whatever appears to be the best be to you an inviolable law."	Epictetus
227	"If any instance of pain or pleasure be set before you, remember that now is the combat, and that by one failure or success, honor may be lost or won. And though you are not yet proficient, you ought to live as one seeking to be proficient."	Epictetus
228	Cleared Rome of what most shamed him.	Unknown
229	"Cause depends on cause, and all public and private affairs are carried forward by a long chain of events."	Unknown
230	Events are always closely connected with those which they follow; and all are fitted together harmoniously.	Unknown
231	Often think of the union and relationship of all things in the universe.	Unknown
232	"All things are interwoven, so that there are scarcely any which are not connected together; and this bond is holy."	Unknown
233	Everything is done according to law.	Unknown
234	"No one is such a child as to fear Cerberus, or the shades, or the ghostly skeletons."	Unknown
235	It is foolish to pray for that good disposition which you are able to give yourself.	Unknown
236	Religion worships; superstition blasphemes.	Unknown
237	Never do the gods repent of their first intentions.	Unknown
238	Perfect beings have no power to do harm.	Unknown
239	The immortal gods are neither willing nor able to harm us.	Unknown
240	No sane man fears the gods.	Unknown
241	"According to our own vices, have we believed about the gods."	Unknown
242	Let us forbid the lighting of lamps on the Sabbath; for neither do gods need the light nor men like the smoke.	Unknown
243	He who is at peace with himself is at peace with all the gods.	Unknown
244	"God seeks no servants, but himself serves the human race, being always near each one of us."	Unknown
245	"Thou wilt find that whatever happens takes place justly, and as if done by some one who distributes all things according to desert."	Unknown
246	"Always think of the universe as one living being, having one body and one soul."	Unknown
247	Worship the best part of the universe— that which uses and directs all the rest.	Unknown
248	"The spiritual power is everywhere, and as ready as the air to fill him who will take it in."	Unknown
249	Every man has power to make himself happy.	Unknown
250	"So grand and noble is the mind of man, that it accepts no limits, excent those which belong also to God."	Unknown
251	We follow our natural disposition when we do good.	Unknown
252	"Mighty is virtue to win the hearts of men; her beauty fills their souls, and they are carried away by admiration of her brightness."	Unknown
253	Know that nothing is more docile than the soul of man.	Unknown
254	Purity is part of the nature of man.	Unknown
255	It is peculiarly human to love even those who do wrong.	Unknown
256	It is ignorantly and involuntarily that men sin.	Unknown
257	"It is a part of thine own constitution, as well as of the nature of man, to do philanthropic acts."	Unknown
258	No evil can happen to the good.	Unknown
259	"Calm and fearless pleasure is his who knows the laws of God and man, and rejoices in the present, without depending on the future."	Unknown
260	"I prefer those who meet Death without hatred of life, and admit him without inviting him."	Unknown
261	"If we are anxious about the future, it is because we do not use the present."	Unknown
262	God has given us power to bear everything without being either degraded or crushed.	Unknown
263	Never can there be courage where there is not peace.	Unknown
264	What we bear is not so important as how we bear it.	Unknown
265	"The good man bears calmly much that is not evil, except to those that take it ill."	Unknown
266	"He yields to destiny, and consoles himself by knowing that he is carried along with the universe."	Unknown
267	"Fortune conquers us, unless she is conquered utterly."	Unknown
268	"He is free who arises above all injuries, and finds all his joys within himself."	Unknown
269	"Wisdom shows her strength by her peace amid trouble, like an army encamped in safety in a hostile land."	Unknown
270	"Peace of mind comes by meditating diligently over wise maxims, by doing our duty, and by setting our hearts on what is noble."	Unknown
271	"What madness to be dragged along by the divine will, rather than follow it!"	Unknown
272	Fear and penitence for those who can neither rule nor obey their desires.	Unknown
273	"A very little can satisfy our necessities, but nothing our desires."	Unknown
274	Nothing is so honorable as a great soul; but that soul is not great which can be shaken by either fear or grief.	Unknown
275	The best proof that thy soul is calm is thy ability to continue in thine own company.	Unknown
276	"Where there is contentment there is no poverty. It is not he who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor."	Unknown
277	"Which had you rather give up—yourself, or some of your troubles ?"	Unknown
278	"He has reached the height of wisdom who knows what to rejoice in, and does not place his happiness in another's power."	Unknown
279	The wise man's joy is woven so well as not to be broken by any accident.	Unknown
280	Fortune has not such long arms as we think; she seizes on no one who is not clinging to her.	Unknown
281	"Liberty is not to be had gratis; if she be worth much to us, all things else will have little value."	Unknown
282	The grandest of empires is to rule one's self.	Unknown
283	Philosophy will give us the greatest of blessings—freedom from regret.	Unknown
284	"That which satisfies us is never too little, and that which does not is never much."	Unknown
285	"This is grand, to act always like the same man."	Unknown
286	"My country is wherever I am happy; and that depends on the man, not the place."	Unknown
287	Who has most? He who desires least.	Unknown
288	Snow-white old age comes to the patient.	Unknown
289	"Sickness is a hindrance to the body, but not to the will, unless that yields."	Unknown
290	"Everything has two handles, and can be carried by one of them, but not by the other."	Unknown
291	"Whoever shuns, or desires, what is not in his own power, cannot be either faithful or free."	Unknown
292	"This is education, to learn to wish that things should happen as they do."	Unknown
293	If you choose to keep your will in harmony with nature you are safe and free from care.	Unknown
294	"Show me some one who is sick, in danger, disgraced, dying, but yet happy. Show him, for I long to see a Stoic!"	Unknown
295	"Freedom is not gained by satisfying, but by restraining, our desires."	Unknown
296	"Of what use is your reading, if it does not give you peace ?"	Unknown
297	"It is not poverty, but covetousness, that causes sorrow. It is not wealth, but philosophy, that gives security."	Unknown
298	"He is wise who rejoices in what he has, and does not grieve for what he has not."	Unknown
299	"Fortify thyself in contentment, for this is a fortress which cannot be taken easily."	Unknown
300	"How easy to drive away every thought that is troublesome, or unfriendly, and be at peace at once."	Unknown
301	Nothing comes upon any man which he is not formed to bear.	Unknown
302	The mind turns every obstacle into an aid.	Unknown
303	"Nothing that happens injures me, unless I take it as an evil; and it is in my power not to take it so."	Unknown
304	Always remember that very little is needed for living a happy life.	Unknown
305	"Whatever happens is an opportunity for acting reasonably and kindly; in short, becomingly, toward either God or man."	Unknown
306	"Is it not better to use what thou hast, like a free man, than to long, like a slave, for what is not in thy power ?"	Unknown
307	Calamity is opportunity for courage.	Unknown
308	"Throw away all anxiety about life, and so make it pleasant."	Unknown
309	A brave and wise man should not flee from life.	Unknown
310	"Courage is careful to preserve itself, and ready to endure what is evil in appearance only."	Unknown
311	Nothing is baser than to wish for death.	Unknown
312	"Receive what is in your own power with caution; and what is not, with courage."	Unknown
313	"Be like a headland, standing firm against the waves that beat against it continually, and calming the raging sea."	Unknown
314	"If there were reason for beginning to be angry, there would be none for ever ceasing to be."	Unknown
315	"In order not to be angry with anybody, you should pardon everybody. Your forgiveness is due to your race."	Unknown
316	"The soul which is incapable of anger may be not feeble, but possessed of stronger impulses."	Unknown
317	"The philosopher will not be the enemy, but the teacher, of sinners."	Unknown
318	Fight against the beginnings of evil; but anger begins with thinking that we are injured.	Unknown
319	The best cure for anger is delay.	Unknown
320	"Let us inflict punishment without anger, and because it is useful, not because revenge is sweet."	Unknown
321	"If he be your friend, he has done what was not intended; if he be your enemy, what might have been foreseen."	Unknown
322	"What must the soul of the angry man be, when his face is so hideous?"	Unknown
323	"Let me be good-natured with my friends, and mild and easy with my enemies."	Unknown
324	"There is no virtue more honorable to man than this, or more truly honored."	Unknown
325	"The wise man will pardon much, and save many souls because they are capable of being healed."	Unknown
326	He will blame fortune alone for others' sins.	Unknown
327	It is madness to think that we fix an end to passions which we cannot control at their beginning.	Unknown
328	Better leave crime unpunished than condemn the innocent.	Unknown
329	"Thrasea used to say, 'He who hates vice hates mankind.'"	Unknown
330	"He is best and purest who pardons others as if he sinned himself daily, but avoids sinning as if he never pardoned."	Unknown
331	"Do not make an idol of your clothes, and you will not be angry at the thief."	Unknown
332	"The Cynic loves those who beat him, and is a father and brother toward all men."	Unknown
333	"He who is good and wise never quarrels with anybody, but tries to keep others out of strife."	Unknown
334	Men exist for one another; therefore teach them or bear with them.	Unknown
335	"Do not think like him who wrongs thee, or as he would have thee, but see what is required by the truth."	Unknown
336	Beware of feeling toward the cruel as they do toward others.	Unknown
337	"That pleasure which is worthy of a man consists in not overloading the body, nor exciting those passions whose rest is our safety."	Unknown
338	"Hunger needs little, but pride needs much."	Unknown
339	It is besi to keep the feasts of the people without their excesses.	Unknown
340	"True pleasure can never cease, nor be turned into pain."	Unknown
341	"What philosophers labor to teach in many volumes I can give you in a few words: Persevere, when healthy, in what you resolve upon when sick."	Unknown
342	"We must conquer our passions, not by strategy, but by main force; not by slight wounds, but by a deadly charge."	Unknown
343	"What a wretched slavery he undergoes who is domineered over alternately by pleasure and pain, the most capricious and outrageous of tyrants."	Unknown
344	"Despising death, welcoming poverty, and restraining lust, these three give great delight."	Unknown
345	"Pure, not only from forbidden pleasures, but from useless ones."	Unknown
346	Often it is easier to renounce utterly than to enjoy moderately.	Unknown
347	"Chastity, whose loss is every virtue's ruin."	Unknown
348	"Before thy marriage, keep thyself pure with all thy might."	Unknown
349	The height of purity or impurity is in the soul.	Unknown
350	"My mother taught me to keep myself not only from doing wrong, but even from imagining it."	Unknown
351	"The mind that is free from passion is a castle, and man has none more strong."	Unknown
352	"Those gifts of fortune which produce neither courage nor nobleness of soul, but insolence and baseness, should not be thought good, but bad."	Unknown
353	Neither self-respect nor prudence is own by him who readily thinks himself despised.	Unknown
354	"Satisfy conscience and do not work for reputation, but let this make itself, though it be worse than we deserve."	Unknown
355	"Trust in yourself, and believe that you are walking in the right way."	Unknown
356	Nothing costs more than what is begged.	Unknown
357	"When you have advanced far enough to reverence yourself, you may dismiss all mentors."	Unknown
358	"If thy deeds be noble, let all men know them; if they be base, what matters it that no one else knows them, since they are known to thee?"	Unknown
359	What disgraces philosophy more than seeking applause ?	Unknown
360	No one loves Virtue better than he who is willing to lose the credit rather than the consciousness of possessing her.	Unknown
361	I had rather show you my feelings than speak them.	Unknown
362	Experience has taught me not to ask advice when I have made up my mind what to do.	Unknown
363	He who would be independent must seek for nothing and flee from nothing which depends on others.	Unknown
364	He who believes that we are all born of God can never think of himself meanly or basely.	Unknown
365	"We are created to be independent, modest, and noble of soul."	Unknown
366	"Do you wish to be useful, or to be praised ?"	Unknown
367	"The good and noble man does nothing for the sake of appearances, but everything for the sake of acting well."	Unknown
368	No one is owner of another's will.	Unknown
369	Do not so much fear being disgraced by public opinion as by the truth.	Unknown
370	"A man should stand upright, and not be kept upright by others."	Unknown
371	The pride of not being proud is the most hard to bear.	Unknown
372	"Nobody would give away his property to all comers, as everybody gives away his life."	Unknown
373	He has the longest of lives who suffers no time to be lost.	Unknown
374	He who lays out each day as if it were a life will neither fear nor long for the morrow.	Unknown
375	Only to the busy belongs the present.	Unknown
376	"It is our inconstancy, in beginning one thing after another, that makes life short."	Unknown
377	We all have leisure for what we wish to do.'	Unknown
378	"If unwilling to rise in the morning, say to thyself, 'I awake to do the work of a man.'"	Unknown
379	"I was taught to endure labor, to want little, and to do things myself."	Unknown
380	Follow this sound and safe rule of life— to indulge the body just so much as its health requires.	Unknown
381	"I acknowledge that it should be cared for and favored, but I deny that it should be served, for he who serves it serves many masters."	Unknown
382	"We need amusements, but there should be some work in them, that even from them we may get good."	Unknown
383	"A stomach which can wait patiently, and endure rough treatment, is an important condition of liberty."	Unknown
384	It is wonderful how much the mind is excited by moving the body.	Unknown
385	"They are mad, who. make no account of riches, health, freedom from pain, and integrity of the body, nor take any care to attain them."	Unknown
386	"I deny that riches are good in themselves, but I confess that they are worth having and useful, and may be of great help in life."	Unknown
387	"Money is the fool's master, but the wise man's servant."	Unknown
388	One day does more for the educated man than the longest life for the untaught.	Unknown
389	"From early youth we can give ourselves to looking at the truth, finding a rule of life, and obeying it quietly."	Unknown
390	He who studies the universe serves God.	Unknown
391	"Nature, conscious of her own wisdom and beauty, has created us as observers of lofty spectacles."	Unknown
392	"Such are the researches for which we are born, that we should find all the time allotted us short."	Unknown
393	"Many would reach wisdom, did they not suppose they had already arrived there."	Unknown
394	"The mind can reach nothing grand and difficult, unless it passes out of the beaten track into regions where it has feared to go."	Unknown
395	"Those alone have leisure who devote themselves to wisdom; they alone live, for they enjoy not only their own years, but all the ages."	Unknown
396	It is our minds that make us rich.	Unknown
397	"As the tools we handle daily are kept free from rust and dirt, so what we think of often never slips from the memory."	Unknown
398	"How much better worth our while to know what we should do, than what has been already done !"	Unknown
399	What will be the reward of our studies? The noblest that could be wished: the knowledge of nature.	Unknown
400	Strength of mind can come in no other way than by studying diligently and observing nature [A contemplatione naturae ].	Unknown
401	Do not fear that you have wasted your study if you have taught yourself.	Unknown
402	"The soul is in chains, until philosophy cheers her with the knowledge of nature, and lets her mount from what is earthy to the divine."	Unknown
403	"No one drives away vice, until in its place he accepts wisdom."	Unknown
404	Ease without letters is a living death and burial.	Unknown
405	"I must keep reading, in order to keep dissatisfied with myself."	Unknown
406	"Read much, but not many books."	Unknown
407	Only the educated are free.	Unknown
408	"Virtue unbinds the chain of the soul, by teaching, experience and exercise."	Unknown
409	Let nothing be more precious to thee than truth.	Unknown
410	Never be contented with a superficial apprehension of anything.	Unknown
411	"As thou thinkest most often, so will be thy character; for by the thoughts the soul is dyed."	Unknown
412	A man's worth is that of those things about which he is busy.	Unknown
413	"Remember that to change thy mind, and follow him who sets thee right, does not lessen thy independence."	Unknown
414	"Before we form a friendship we should criticise, but after forming it we should only trust."	Unknown
415	It is vicious either to trust nobody or to trust everybody.	Unknown
416	"Love sometimes harms, but friendship always helps."	Unknown
417	"I seek the society, not of those among whom chance or birth throws me, but of those in every age and land who are most virtuous."	Unknown
418	Advise a friend in private; praise him openly.	Unknown
419	Prosperity gives friends; adversity proves them.	Unknown
420	He who associates calmly with the wicked is one of them himself.	Unknown
421	No one will ever persuade me that I love my friends too much.	Unknown
422	"Try to gather around your house, not herds of oxen, but troops of friends."	Unknown
423	Flee from the friendship of the wicked and the hatred of the good.	Unknown
424	"When thou wouldst be joyful, call to mind the good qualities of those who live with thee."	Unknown
425	He who is separate from any neighbor has fallen away from the whole community.	Unknown
426	He who repents of his sins is already almost innocent.	Unknown
427	The safest road to virtue is repentance.	Unknown
428	Goodness consists mainly in wishing to become good.	Unknown
429	"We must learn virtue by unlearning vice. And virtue, when'once gained, remains with us. and cannot be unlearned."	Unknown
430	"The noblest virtue is not fostered by incense and garlands, but by sweat and blood."	Unknown
431	"As weapons to chained hands, so are precepts to sinful souls."	Unknown
432	"Feeling is king when it seeks the right, but when it is unruly it takes a hateful name, and becomes tyrant."	Unknown
433	"Our nature has strength enough, if we are only willing to gather and use it all; we cannot plead lack of power, but only of intention."	Unknown
434	What a paltry innocence to be as good as the law requires!	Unknown
435	"The Stoic loves only virtue, and would not leave her to gain immortality."	Unknown
436	She receives no sordid lover.	Unknown
437	For her all things are to be endured.	Unknown
438	"She is self-satisfied and permanent, while vice is ever changing."	Unknown
439	Only that by which the character is made better is good.	Unknown
440	Who is nobly born? He who is by nature virtuous. It is the character that makes the noble.	Unknown
441	"Virtue is the same, whether she is reached through joys or griefs."	Unknown
442	"As the sun dims all lesser lights, so docs she cause grief, trouble and injury to fade away."	Unknown
443	She is sufficient by herself to complete the happiness of life.	Unknown
444	"What can he desire, who has every virtue?"	Unknown
445	"It is better sometimes to own that we sin, but usually to behave well, than seldom to confess our faults, but often commit them."	Unknown
446	Better die than live ill.	Unknown
447	"Good fortune is good intentions, good impulses, and good deeds."	Unknown
448	"If anything is possible for man, and peculiar to him, think that this can be attained by thee."	Unknown
449	"Look within: there is the fountain of good which will always gush forth, if thou wilt always dig."	Unknown
450	"Use the present thoughtfully and justly, for life is short."	Unknown
451	"As we bear with children, so the philosopher will bear with everybody."	Unknown
452	What a monster is he who rages at his fellow-men !	Unknown
453	"Let us honor humanity, and cause no danger or fear to any one."	Unknown
454	"As glory follows those who flee from her, so is gratitude given most richly to those who tolerate ingratitude."	Unknown
455	"Take care not to be either like the bad because there are many of them, or hostile to the many because they are not like yourself.'"	Unknown
456	"Euphrates attacked vices, not men, and did not scourge, but persuaded, the erring."	Unknown
457	"Will you not bear with your brother, who has God for his ancestor and is of your own heavenly race?"	Unknown
458	"However my brother treats me, I must do my duty by him; that is all that need concern me."	Unknown
459	It is better to advise than to reproach.	Unknown
460	"If thou be able, teach others what is right; if thou be not, remember that meekness was given thee for this."	Unknown
461	"The wise man will be glad to marry and have children, for he had rather not live at all than live alone."	Unknown
462	What is more pleasant than to be so dear to your wife as to be on this account dearer to yourself?	Unknown
463	"As soon as a child is born to us, it is no longer in our power not to love it and care for it."	Unknown
464	"Love practically the men with whom thy lot is cast.'"""	Unknown
465	To love our neighbor is a property which shows a soul endowed with reason.	Unknown
466	"Should a gift not prove a benefit, it would yet be ungrateful not to return it, as if it were."	Unknown
467	A kindness should be returned in the same spirit in which it is bestowed.	Unknown
468	"He who gives ought to forget it immediately, but he who receives never."	Unknown
469	We should be neither squeamish nor abject in taking favors.	Unknown
470	He is most ungrateful who forgets what has been given him.	Unknown
471	"It may happen that he who returns a favor is ungrateful, and he is grateful who does not."	Unknown
472	"The ingrate is pleased for the time, the grateful man for ever."	Unknown
473	No other vice is so hostile to the harmony of the human race as ingratitude.	Unknown
474	"No one who knows his obligations, and heartily wishes to discharge them, need think himself outdone in kindness."	Unknown
475	"I should be unjust, as well as ungrateful, if I were not glad to have him who benefits me benefit himself, also."	Unknown
476	"Do not wish that your benefactor may need to be repaid by you, but only that you may be able to repay him, if he needs it."	Unknown
477	"To have kingdoms is fortune; to give them, virtue."	Unknown
478	"Why not take care of your short life, and make it pleasant for others, and also for yourself?"	Unknown
479	"If you would have other people feel grateful to you, you must not only help them, but love them."	Unknown
480	It is base to be outdone in kindness.	Unknown
481	Avarice denies to herself what she takes from others.	Unknown
482	"No one is grateful for what he has extorted. We find many ingrates, and we make more."	Unknown
483	"Kindness is always good. It is the intention which endears what is cheap, ennobles what is base, and degrades what is costly."	Unknown
484	"Let us give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and unhesitatingly; in a gift that sticks to the fingers there is no grace."	Unknown
485	It is better to get the start of a request than to follow it.	Unknown
486	He who gives when he is asked has waited too long.	Unknown
487	"He who gives gladly gives quickly; he who delays, loses not only his time, but his chance of proving his friendship."	Unknown
488	"It is best that those who are helped should not know their benefactor, for the secrecy increases the gift."	Unknown
489	Covetousness permits no gratitude.	Unknown
490	Give the kindness for its own sake; thinking only of the receiver's interests.	Unknown
491	"Prodigality is never noble, and especially not in charity."	Unknown
492	"Let no one suppose that I would check charity; let it go where it will, but not wander to and fro."	Unknown
493	"The wise man considers to whom he gives, rather than what he gives."	Unknown
494	"He helps his friends, not through his own strength, but through theirs."	Unknown
495	Often the friends give exactly what the enemies wish.	Unknown
496	Delight in acts of kindness is our nearest approach to the divine.	Unknown
497	"Thrasea used to say that we should take the side not only of our friends, but of the friendless."	Unknown
498	Animals who lack reason should be treated nobly and magnanimously.	Unknown
499	"The true philosopher, unless prevented, will serve the state."	Unknown
500	"I fight, not for my own liberty, but for my country's; not to live free, but to live / among freemen."	Unknown
501	"Let private interests yield to public, the mortal to the eternal."	Unknown
502	"What would I have death find me doing? Something benevolent, public - spirited, and noble."	Unknown
503	"Fear nothing, but that thy mind should turn to something unworthy of a thinker and a citizen."	Unknown
504	That which is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.	Unknown
505	"A reasoning being goes on his way well, when he directs his impulses only to actions of public benefit."	Unknown
506	Every act of thine which is without any immediate or ultimate reference to the welfare of the community tears thy life asunder.	Unknown
507	Let thy efforts and exertions be turned toward acting for the public good.	Unknown
508	Thou art a man set at thy post for the benefit of the state.	Unknown
509	"Do nothing without a purpose, and let that always be some public end."	Unknown
510	Love is the god who gives safety to the city.	Unknown
511	"I will show you how to make a lovepotion without either drugs or spells: If you would be loved, love."	Unknown
512	"We are created for the sake of mankind, to be useful to each other."	Unknown
513	Nature endears man to man.	Unknown
514	All men are plainly bound together.	Unknown
515	"Obey that law of nature which makes your interest the universal, and the universal one your own."	Unknown
516	Care for other men and serve the common brotherhood.	Unknown
517	Men are made for helping each other.	Unknown
518	I shall take the world as my country.	Unknown
519	"Nature commands me to do good to all men, whether they be bond or free."	Unknown
520	"Think of that great republic whose boundary is the course of the sun, and whose citizens are all the men and gods."	Unknown
521	"Let us have such noble souls as not to shut ourselves up within a single city, but take an interest in all the countries of the earth."	Unknown
522	"We, Stoics, when shut out from politics, have devoted ourselves to elevating our own lives, and giving laws to our race."	Unknown
523	"Guard religiously that social tie which binds man to man, and establishes the rights common to the human race."	Unknown
524	"The weak grow strong in union, but the mighty perish by discord."	Unknown
525	"Human life consists in kindness and harmony, and is bound together for mutual help, not by terror, but by love."	Unknown
526	"There is a natural fellowship among men, and it ought in every way to be preserved."	Unknown
527	"Meditate upon your actions. Ask yourself, 'What have I done that is contrary to the interests of my friends and of my race?'"	Unknown
528	Man's nature is to do good and assist others and comply with their wishes.	Unknown
529	"No one who is a lover of money, pleasure, or fame, is also a lover of mankind, but only he who is a lover of virtue."	Unknown
530	"We are made for co-operation, like the hands and feet."	Unknown
531	Does any one hate me? I will be kind and friendly to every one.	Unknown
532	"Do not labor unwillingly, or without regard to the common good."	Unknown
533	God gives man power never to let himself be separated from the great whole.	Unknown
534	Do nothing but what is useful to men.	Unknown
535	It is like a deserter to flee away from social laws.	Unknown
536	The chief end of a rational creature is the social life.	Unknown
537	"Put all thy joy and satisfaction in passing from one philanthropic action to another, thinking of God."	Unknown
538	"Treat men fraternally, because they are endowed with reason."	Unknown
539	Peculiarly manly is benevolence to our fellow-men.	Unknown
540	To be honest simply for the sake of being so is too little; we should delight in sacrificing ourselves for this most lovely of virtues.	Unknown
541	"If you would judge justly, esteem neither parties nor pleaders, but the case itself."	Unknown
542	"As the touchstone tries gold, but is not itself tried by it, so is he who has the power of judging justly."	Unknown
543	Not .even the choicest friendship is free from passions which may overshadow and disturb thy sense of justice.	Unknown
544	Not yet dost thou see that prudence is all contained in justice.	Unknown
545	"The holiest possession of the human soul is that fidelity which is corrupted by no reward, and forced to deceive by no necessity."	Unknown
546	The faith which expects rewards is to be conquered by them.	Unknown
547	Act well to present friends; speak well of absent ones.	Unknown
548	"My word is as my country to me, and even dearer, if anything can be."	Unknown
549	"Whether the slave have become so by conquest or by purchase, the master's title is bad."	Unknown
550	"One universe is our common parent. Do not despise any one because he is surrounded by vulgar names, or unfavored by fortune."	Unknown
551	"Philosophy neither accepts nor rejects any one, but shines for all."	Unknown
552	Live with thy inferiors as thou wouldst have thy superiors live with thee.	Unknown
553	"Have thy slaves honor, rather than fear, thee. Punish them only with words."	Unknown
554	Virtue may be born in any place.	Unknown
555	"Justice considers only the good of others, and desires' nothing but to be of use."	Unknown
556	"Let us not charge any one with baseness of birth. Let us have free laborers, and think their labors useful and noble."	Unknown
557	"In using the power of a father, remember not only that your son is a boy, as you have been, but that you are a man, and the father of one."	Unknown
558	"What you would not suffer yourself take care not to impose on others; and as you would escape slavery, do not treat others like slaves."	Unknown
559	From Diognetus I learned to endure freedom of speech.	Unknown
560	To pardon everybody is as cruel as to pardon nobody.	Unknown
561	It is absurd to lose our own innocence rather than to do harm to other people.	Unknown
562	"Peace with all mankind, but war with vice."	Unknown
563	He who spares the bad wrongs the good.	Unknown
564	He who will not forbid sin commands it.	Unknown
565	"The possessor of all things else may need a friend to tell him the truth, and free him from the conspiracy of falsehood."	Unknown
566	"It is base to say, and baser still to write, what we do not feel."	Unknown
567	Truth hates delay.	Unknown
568	"Truth conquers by itself, opinion by appealing to externals."	Unknown
569	Flatterers destroy the souls of men by blinding their eyes.'	Unknown
570	"The safety of life demands that I do what is just with my whole soul, and say what is true."	Unknown
571	"To act a part, or say or do anything insincere or untrue, pollutes the soul."	Unknown
572	"It is hard to find virtue, and there is need of governors and guides."	Unknown
573	No one can do his duties properly unless he has learnt that general principle by which he can find them out in all particulars.	Unknown
574	No one has strength enough of his own to rise out of folly; one must give another the hand.	Unknown
575	"The soul should be taught to follow some model, like boys who learn to write."	Unknown
576	The character does not become perfect without that abiding knowledge of good and evil which only philosophy can give.	Unknown
577	"Virtue does not come until the character is formed, and taught, and developed by continual exercise."	Unknown
578	It is through the parts that we must reach the whole.	Unknown
579	No one is good by accident; virtue must be learned.	Unknown
580	"What, then, is the cause of my sinning? Ignorance."	Unknown
581	What makes a man free and master of himself? The science of living.	Unknown
582	Burn the midnight oil to gain principles which will set you free.	Unknown
583	True philosophers have not neglected the advantage and interests of mankind.	Unknown
584	"Nothing does more to deprave human nature than the belief that anything is virtuous which is not useful, or useful which is not virtuous."	Unknown
585	Nothing is so much in accordance with nature as utility.	Unknown
586	"He is a good man who benefits as many people as possible, and harms nobody."	Unknown
587	The standard of utility is the same as that of morality.	Unknown
588	In all our reasonings we should keep in view the general good.	Unknown
589	Public and private utility are inseparable.	Unknown
590	In being useful the soul moves according to nature.	Unknown
591	"Whatever is good is always profitable; if it does not profit, it is not good; if it does, it is so already."	Unknown
592	To live happily is the same thing as to live according to nature.	Unknown
593	"No action of a depraved character, and destitute of utility, can prove unaccompanied by punishment."	Unknown
594	Consider the antecedents and the consequences of every action before you undertake it.	Unknown
595	God made all men to be happy and to be calm.	Unknown
596	To be happy is a good object and one in your own power.	Unknown
597	Choose the better part; but that which is useful is the better part.	Unknown
598	Do nothing which is not according to the principle that completes the art of life.	Unknown
599	"Let there be effort and exertion resulting in acting for the common good, for this, too, is according to thy nature."	Unknown
600	Do nothing inconsiderately or without a purpose.	Unknown
601	And everything which is useful to the universe is always good and in season.	Unknown
602	"Now, Chrysippus neither professes himself, nor any one of his disciples and teachers, to be virtuous."	Unknown
603	"We all have sinned; nor do we even give it up, but we go on offending until the end of life."	Unknown
604	The elements may be destroyed by the operation of fire.	Unknown
605	"God himself they call a being who, after certain periods of time, absorbs all substance in himself, and then reproduces it from himself."	Unknown
606	The learned and vigorous endure until the general fire.	Unknown