Fragments (A.51-A.55)

Agrippinus was justly entitled to praise on this account, that, though he was a man of the highest worth, he never praised himself, but blushed even if another praised him. And he was a man of such a character as to commend every untoward event that befell him: if he was feverish, the fever; if disgraced, the disgrace; if banished, the banishment. And, when once, as he was going to dine, a messenger brought him word that Nero ordered him to banishment, Well, then, said Agrippinus, let us dine at Aricia.[*]

Diogenes affirmed—no labor to be good, unless the end were a due state and tone of the soul, and not of the body.

As a true balance is neither set right by a true one, nor judged by a false one; so likewise a just person has neither to be set right by just persons, nor to be judged by unjust ones.

As what is straight needs no straightness, so what is just needs [to borrow] no justice.

Give no judgment from another tribunal before you have yourself been judged at the tribunal of absolute justice.