What thou avoidest suffering thyself seek not to impose on others.

A soul that makes virtue its companion is like an over-flowing well, for it is clean and pellucid, sweet and wholesome, open to all, rich, blameless and indestructible.

Exceed due measure, and the most delightful things become the least delightful.

It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance

Don't demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.

Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but rather the fear of death?

We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time.