Be not diverted from your duty by any idle reflections the silly world may make upon you, for their censures are not in your power and should not be at all your concerns.

Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems

It is impossible that happiness, and yearning for what is not present, should ever be united.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents." Translation by Sharon Lebell

Let death and exile, and all other things which appear terrible be daily before your eyes, but chiefly death, and you win never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.