What disturbs people's minds are not events but their judgments on events.
If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.
Think of God oftener than you breathe.
What is a good person? One who achieves tranquillity by having formed the habit of asking on every occasion, "what is the right thing to do now?"
We ought to flee the friendship of the wicked, and the enmity of the good.
Do you know that disease and death must needs overtake us, no matter what we are doing?... what do you wish to be doing when it overtakes you?... If you have anything better to be doing when you are so overtaken, get to work on that.