It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.

It is the sign of a dull mind to dwell upon the cares of the body, to prolong exercise, eating and drinking and other bodily functions. These things are best done by the way; all your attention must be given to the mind.

Nothing great comes into being all at once.

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

Wherever I go it will be well with me, for it was well with me here, not on account of the place, but of my judgments which I shall carry away with me, for no one can deprive me of these; on the contrary, they alone are my property, and cannot be taken away, and to possess them suffices me wherever I am or whatever I do.

We do not choose our own parts in life, and have nothing to do with those parts. Our duty is confined to playing them well.

Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.