Not things, but opinions about things, trouble men.

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.

Getting distracted by trifles is the easiest thing in the world… Focus on your main duty

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Against specious appearances we must set clear convictions, bright and ready for use. When death appears as an evil, we ought immediately to remember that evils are things to be avoided, but death is inevitable.

It is not he who gives abuse that affronts, but the view that we take of it as insulting; so that when one provokes you it is your own opinion which is provoking.

Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.