"From my great-grandfather, not to have frequented public schools, and to have had good teachers at home, and to know …"

"Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else."

"El perro ladra y la caravana pasa."

"It is not fit that I should give myself pain, for I have never intentionally given pain even to another."

"Her reverence for the divine, her generosity, her inability not only to do wrong but even to conceive of doing it. An…"

"From Apollonius, true liberty, and unvariable steadfastness, and not to regard anything at all, though never so littl…"

"Of my grandfather Verus I have learned to be gentle and meek, and to refrain from all anger and passion... I have lea…"

"Not to display anger or other emotions. To be free of passion and yet full of love. (Hays translation)"

"Self-control and resistance to distractions. Optimism in adversity—especially illness. (Hays translation)"

"Of Fronto, to how much envy and fraud and hypocrisy the state of a tyrannous king is subject unto, and how they who a…"