Today I escaped all circumstance, or rather I cast out all circumstance, for it was not outside me, but within my judgements.

I seek the truth...it is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance that does harm.

Whatever may happen to you was prepared for you from all eternity; and the implication of causes was from eternity spinning the thread of your being.

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.

Men despise one another and flatter one another; and men wish to raise themselves above one another, and crouch before one another.

Every moment think steadily as a Roman and a man to do what thou hast in hand with perfect and simple dignity, and feeling of affection, and freedom, and justice; and to give thyself relief from all other thoughts. And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last, laying aside all carelessness and passionate aversion from the commands of reason, and all hypocrisy, and self-love, and discontent with the portion which has been given to thee.

I'm going to be meeting with people today who talk too much - people who are selfish, egotistical, ungrateful. But I won't be surprised or disturbed, for I can't imagine a world without such people.