Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.

Does what's happened keep you from acting with justice, generosity, self-control, sanity, prudence, honesty, humility, straightforward ness, and all other qualities that allow a person's nature to fulfill itself? So remember this principle when something threatens to cause you pain: the thing itself was no misfortune at all; to endure it and prevail is great good fortune.

You are a little soul bearing about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.

Nothing befalls a man except what is in his nature to endure.

He who does wrong does wrong against himself. He who acts unjustly acts unjustly to himself, because he makes himself bad.

Always bear this in mind, that very little indeed is necessary for living a happy life.

Think nothing profitable to you which compels you to break a promise, to lose your self respect, to hate any person, to curse, to act the hypocrite.