The wise expect nothing, hope for nothing, thus avoiding all disappointment and anxiety.

To the one who knows how to look and feel, every moment of this free wandering life is an enchantment.

"To fashion stars out of dog dung, that is the Great Work. To take a negative experience and, by comparing it to something worse, make it feel good, is the great skill."

Neglecting small things under the pretext of wanting to accomplish large ones is the excuse of a coward.

Guard against idols -- yes, guard against all idols, of which surely the greatest is oneself.

Work cannot convey the almost voluptuous sweetness of the feelings experienced ... in solitude.

As a stoic I must despise injury or, rather, I must not feel it, must not be affected by it so that it cannot violate the freedom of my soul.