Not to waste time on nonsense. Not to be taken in by conjurors and hoodoo artists with their talk about incantations and exorcism and all the rest of it. Not to be obsessed with quail-fighting or other crazes like that.

If anyone can refute me-show me I'm making a mistake or looking at things from the wrong perspective-I'l l gladly change. It's the truth I'm after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.

...the sole thing of which any man can be deprived is the present; since this is all he owns, and nobody can lose what is not his.

A man's true delight is to do the things he was made for.

A man's happiness,-to do the things proper to man.

Wilt thou, then, my soul, never be good and simple and one and naked, more manifest than the body which surrounds thee?

If this is neither my own badness, nor an effect of my own badness, and the common weal is not injured, why am I troubled about it? And what is the harm to the common weal?