Remember this - that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.

Think of the universal substance, of which thou has a very small portion; and of universal time, of which a short and indivisible interval has been assigned to thee; and of that which is fixed by destiny, and how small a part of it thou art

When men hate or blame you, or say hurtful things about you, look deeply into their hearts and see what kind of men they are. You'll see how unnecessary it is to strain after their good opinion. Yet you must still think kindly of them. they are your neighbors. The gods help them as they do you, by dreams and oracles, to win their hearts' desires.

For nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul, particularly when he has within him such thoughts that by looking into them he is immediately in perfect tranquility; and I affirm that tranquility is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind.

Things can never touch the soul, but stand inert outside it, so that disquiet can arise only from fancies within.

Without a purpose, nothing should be done.

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.