Neither in writing nor in reading wilt thou be able to lay down rules for others before thou shalt have first learned to obey rules thyself.

Withdraw to the untroubled quietude deep within the soul, and refresh yourself.

Nature which governs the whole will soon change all things which you see, and out of their substance will make other things and again other things... in order that the world may be ever new.

There is no man so fortunate that there shall not be by him when he is dying some who are pleased with what is going to happen.

Time is like a river made up of the events which happen, and a violent stream; for as soon as a thing has been seen, it is carried away, and another comes in its place, and this will be carried away too.

Men exist for each other. Then either improve them, or put up with them.

Today I escaped all circumstance, or rather I cast out all circumstance, for it was not outside me, but within my judgements.