Were you to live three thousand years, or even thirty thousand, remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment; and furthermore, that he can have no other life except the one he loses.

Everything that happens either happens in such a way as you are formed by nature to bear it, or as you are not formed by nature to bear it.

The ruling power within, when it is in its natural state, is so related to outer circumstances that it easily changes to accord with what can be done and what is given it to do.

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.

Keep yourself simple, good, pure, serious, and unassuming; the friend of justice and godliness; kindly, affectionate, and resolute in your devotion to duty.

Everything is ephemeral, both that which remembers and that which is remembered.

Alexander the Great and his mule driver both died and the same thing happened to both.