Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle.

Act well your given part; the choice rests not with you.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

Do not strive for things occurring to occur as you wish, but wish the things occurring as they occur, and you will flow well.

It’s time to stop being vague. If you wish to be an extraordinary person, if you wish to be wise, then you should explicitly identify the kind of person you aspire to become.

If a person had delivered up your body to some passer-by, you would certainly be angry. And do you feel no shame in delivering up your own mind to any reviler, to be disconcerted and confounded?

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.