committing a wrong fueled by your desire is worse than committing a wrong fueled by anger - paraphrased from pg. 18
“the good man, to be pleased and content with what happens” p. 31
“Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.” p. 37
“In the morning when you rise reluctantly, let this thought be present: I am rising to do the work of a human being. Why then am I dissatisfied if I am going to do the things for which I exist and for which I was brought into the world? Or have I been made for this, to lie in the bedclothes and keep myself warm?” p. 47
“The best way of avenging yourself is not to become like the wrong-doer.” p. 61
“It is in our power to have no opinion about a thing, and not to be disturbed in our soul. For things themselves have no natural power to form our judgements.” p. 74
“Accustom yourself to attend carefully to what is said by another, and as much as it is possible, be in the speaker’s mind.” p. 74
“Receive wealth or prosperity without arrogance, and be ready to let it go.” p. 100
“if you are pained by an external thing, it is not this thing that disturbs you, but your own judgement about it.” p. 103
“He who does wrong does wrong against himself. He who acts unjustly acts unjustly to himself, because he makes himself bad.” p. 112
“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.” p. 155
