The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.

What is it to be a philosopher? Is it not to be prepared against events?

No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them

When your thoughts, words, and deeds form a seamless fabric, you streamline your efforts and thus eliminate worry and dread.

No living being is held by anything so strongly as by its own needs. Whatever therefore appears a hindrance to these, be it brother, or father, or child, or mistress, or friend, is hated, abhorred, execrated.