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- What I testify to, my body testifies to as well
- What are other people’s affairs to you

- Remember that if you consort with someone covered in dirt, you can hardly avoid getting a little grimy yourself
- Every circumstance represents an opportunity
- Bring what challenge you please and I will turn it to good account
- You must purify your intellect by training your thoughts

- Set your own house in order
- Never be harsh. Remember every soul is deprived of the truth against its will

- “I’ve made a decision.” Yes, so have lunatics

- Who is my master? Whoever controls what you desire or dislike

- The true man is revealed in difficult times

- When someone is properly grounded in life, they shouldn’t have to look outside themselves for approval
- And who exactly are these people that you want to be admired by? Aren’t they the same people you are in the habit of calling crazy? And is this your life ambition then— to win the approval of lunatics?

- We do not abandon any discipline for despair of ever being the best in it
- Instead of thinking up protests, wouldn’t it be easier to just wipe your nose?
- 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