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.

As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new.

It has been ordained that there be summer and winter, abundance and dearth, virtue and vice, and all such opposites for the harmony of the whole, and (Zeus) has given each of us a body, property, and companions.

Freedom is secured not by the fulfillment of one's desires, but by the removal of desire.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things. Don't wish to be thought to know anything; and even if you appear to be somebody important to others, distrust yourself. For, it is difficult to both keep your faculty of choice in a state conformable to nature, and at the same time acquire external things. But while you are careful about the one, you must of necessity neglect the other

Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to.

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