Either an ordered Universe or a medley heaped together mechanically but still an order; or can order subsist in you and disorder in the Whole! And that, too, when all things are so distinguished and yet intermingled and sympathetic.

Where a man can live, he can also live well.

As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion.

Whoever values peace of mind and the health of the soul will live the best of all possible lives.

Remember that all things are only opinion and that it is in your power to think as you please.

Thou art a little soul bearing about a corpse.

Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and say, "Why were things of this sort ever brought into this world?" neither intolerable nor everlasting - if thou bearest in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination. Pain is either an evil to the body (then let the body say what it thinks of it!)-or to the soul. But it is in the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity and tranquility. . . .