We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.

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

If we are not stupid or insincere when we say that the good or ill of man lies within his own will, and that all beside is nothing to us, why are we still troubled?

It is your own convictions which compels you; that is, choice compels choice.

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.

Ruin and recovering are both from within.

Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them.