What is it that every man seeks? To be secure, to be happy, to do what he pleases without restraint and without compulsion.

If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.

Difficulty shows what men are. Therefore when a difficulty falls upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a rough young man. Why? So that you may become an Olympic conqueror; but it is not accomplished without sweat.

It is not things in themselves which trouble us, but our opinions of things.

What is learned without pleasure is forgotten without remorse.

What disturbs people, these are not things, but the judgments relating to things