Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

The substance of the universe is obedient and compliant; and the reason which governs it has in itself no cause for doing evil, for it has no malice, nor does it do evil to anything, nor is anything harmed by it. But all things are made and perfected according to this reason.

Life is a warfare and a stranger's sojourn, and after fame is oblivion.

Let goodness go with the doing.

Put it out of the power of truth to give you an ill character. If anybody reports you not to be an honest man let your practice give him the lie.

If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it.

Remember: Matter: how tiny your share of it. Time: how brief and fleeting your allotment of it. Fate: how small a role you play in it.