Don't demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.

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

The universe is but one great city, full of beloved ones, divine and human, by nature endeared to each other.

A soul which is conversant with virtue is like an ever flowing source, for it is pure and tranquil and potable and sweet and communicative (social) and rich and harmless and free from mischief.

Do you know that disease and death must needs overtake us, no matter what we are doing?... what do you wish to be doing when it overtakes you?... If you have anything better to be doing when you are so overtaken, get to work on that.

We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.

In theory there is nothing to hinder our following what we are taught;but in life there are many things to draw us aside.