Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them.

The materials are indifferent, but the use we make of them is not a matter of indifference.

He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk.

Remember that you are but an actor, acting whatever part the Master has ordained. It may be short or it may be long. If he wishes you to represent a poor man, do so heartily; if a cripple, or a magistrate, or a private man, in each case act your part with honor.

Whoever then wishes to be free, let him neither wish for anything nor avoid anything which depends on others: if he does not observe this rule, he must be a slave.

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?

What will the world be quite overturned when you die?