If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.

What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.

If your heart is quite set upon a crown, make and put on one of roses, for it will make the prettier appearance.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.

It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintains it and works it out in his life.

It is a mark of a mean capacity to spend much time on the things which concern the body, such as much exercise, much eating, much drinking, much easing of the body, much copulation. But these things should be done as subordinate things: and let all your care be directed to the mind.

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?