In a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this kind is the real cause of our doing or not doing any action, but our inward opinions and principles.

Survey and test a prospective action before undertaking it. Before you proceed, step back and look at the big picture, lest you act rashly on raw impulse.

Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things. Don't wish to be thought to know anything; and even if you appear to be somebody important to others, distrust yourself. For, it is difficult to both keep your faculty of choice in a state conformable to nature, and at the same time acquire external things. But while you are careful about the one, you must of necessity neglect the other

To adorn our characters by the charm of an amiable nature shows at once a lover of beauty and a lover of man.

Do not strive for things occurring to occur as you wish, but wish the things occurring as they occur, and you will flow well.

What is death? A scary mask. Take it off-see, it doesn't bite.