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.

Seek not the good in external things;seek it in yourselves.

Whatever you would make habitual, practice it; and if you would not make a thing habitual, do not practice it, but accustom yourself to something else.

The cause of all human evils is the not being able to apply general principles to special cases.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

What is a good person? One who achieves tranquillity by having formed the habit of asking on every occasion, "what is the right thing to do now?"

We are not to lead events, but to follow them.