He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.

Nothing is miserable but what is thought so, and contrariwise, every estate is happy if he that bears it be content.

Contemplate the extent and stability of the heavens, and then at last cease to admire worthless things.

In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.

So nothing is ever good or bad unless you think it so, and vice versa. All luck is good luck to the man who bears it with equanimity.

Wretched men cringe before tyrants who have no power, the victims of their trivial hopes and fears. They do not realise that anger is hopeless, fear is pointless and desire all a delusion. He whose heart is fickle is not his own master, has thrown away his shield, deserted his post, and he forges the links of the chain that holds him.

Nunc fluens facit tempus,nunc stans facit aeternitatum.(The now that passes produces time, the now that remains produces eternity.)