Think of the country mouse and of the town mouse, and of the alarm and trepidation of the town mouse.

In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: 'I am rising to a man's work.'

In the same degree in which a man's mind is nearer to freedom from all passion, in the same degree also is it nearer to strength.

...small too even the longest fame thereafter, which is itself subject to a succession of little men who quickly die, and have no knowledge of themselves, let alone of those long dead.

One whose chief regard is for his own mind, and for the divinity within him and the service of its goodness, will strike no poses, utter no complaints, and crave neither for solitude nor yet for a crowd. Best of all, his life will be free from continual pursuing and avoiding.

Take the shortest route. The one that nature planned - to speak and act in the healthiest way. Do that, and be free of pain and stress, free of all calculations and pretension.

Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.