virtue

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

"Go about every action as thy last action, free from all vanity, all passionate and wilful aberration from reason, and from all hypocrisy, and self-love."

"Not as though thou hadst thousands of years to live. Death hangs over thee: whilst yet thou livest, whilst thou mayest, be good."

"Look within; within is the fountain of all good. Such a fountain, where springing waters can never fail, so thou dig still deeper and deeper."

"Associate with people who are likely to improve you."

"The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury."

"Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one."

"As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters."