It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance

What will the world be quite overturned when you die?

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

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.

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

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.

It doesn't take much to lose everything, just a little departure from reason