Do not try to seem wise to others.

Embrace reality. Think about what delights you - the small luxuries on which you depend, the people whom you cherish most. But remember that they have their own distinct character, which is quite a separate matter from how we happen to regard them.

It doesn't take much to lose everything, just a little departure from reason

Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale; were I a swan, the part of a swan.

Men are disturbed not by the things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.

I have to die. If it is now, well then I die now; if later, then now I will take my lunch, since the hour for lunch has arrived - and dying I will tend to later.

It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should?