It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should?

You can be invincible, if you enter into no contest in which it is not in your power to conquer.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

Some things are up to us [eph' hêmin] and some things are not up to us. Our opinions are up to us, and our impulses, desires, aversions–in short, whatever is our own doing. Our bodies are not up to us, nor are our possessions, our reputations, or our public offices, or, that is, whatever is not our own doing.

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

It is the part of an uneducated person to blame others where he himself fares ill; to blame himself is the part of one whose education has begun; to blame neither another nor his own self is the part of one whose education is already complete.

Against specious appearances we must set clear convictions, bright and ready for use. When death appears as an evil, we ought immediately to remember that evils are things to be avoided, but death is inevitable.