It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

Whoever then wishes to be free, let him neither wish for anything nor avoid anything which depends on others: if he does not observe this rule, he must be a slave.

The soul's impurity consists in bad judgements, and purification consists in producing in it right judgements, and the pure soul is one which has right judgements, for this alone is proof against confusion and pollution in its functions.

Every place is safe to him who lives with justice.

If I was a nightingale I would sing like a nightingale; if a swan, like a swan. But since I am a rational creature my role is to praise God.

Contentment, as it is a short road and pleasant, has great delight and little trouble.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.