You Are A Principal Work, A Fragment

It Has Been Ordained That There Be Summer And Winter, Abundance And Dearth, Virtue And Vice, And All Such Opposites For The Harmony Of The Whole, And (zeus) Has Given Each Of Us A Body, Property, And Companions.

It Is Not He Who Reviles Or Strikes You Who Insults You, But Your Opinion That These Things Are Insulting.

If You See Anybody Wail And Complain, Call Him A Slave, Though He Be Clad In Purple.

We Have Two Ears And One Mouth So That We Can Listen Twice As Much As We Speak.

You May Be Always Victorious If You Will Never Enter Into Any Contest Where The Issue Does Not Wholly Depend Upon Yourself.