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

Man is born for deeds of kindness.

He who follows reason in all things is both tranquil and active at the same time, and also cheerful and collected.

... Allow yourself a space of quiet, wherein you can add to your knowledge of the Good and learn to curb your restlessness. Guard also against another kind of error: the folly of those who weary their days in much business, but lack any aim on which their whole effort, nay, their whole thought, is focused.

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.

Life is a stranger's sojourn, a night at an inn.

You need to be prepared for firm decisions and action, without losing gentleness towards those who obstruct or abuse you. It's as great a weakness to be angry with them as it is to abandon your plan of action and give up through fear.