"Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial
Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one. Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason.
Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
...in the ways of Nature there is no evil to be found.
If I and my two children cannot move the gods, the gods must have their reasons.
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.