Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but rather the fear of death?

The materials are indifferent, but the use we make of them is not a matter of indifference.

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.

Do not try to seem wise to others.

It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous -- even death is terrible only if we fear it.

Contentment, as it is a short road and pleasant, has great delight and little trouble.

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