By accepting life's limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.

Men are not worried by things, but by their ideas about things. When we meet with difficulties, become anxious or troubled, let us not blame others, but rather ourselves. That is: our ideas about things.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

If what charms you is nothing but abstract principles, sit down and turn them over quietly in your mind: but never dub yourself a Philosopher.

Man is not fully free unless he is master of himself.

It's so simple really: If you say you're going to do something, do it. If you start something, finish it.

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.