Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing.

There is a limit circumscribed to your time – if you do not use it to clear away your clouds, it will be gone, and you will be gone, and the opportunity will not return

Does a man shrink from change? Why, what can come into being save by change?

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

Men seek out retreats for themselves in the country, by the seaside, on the moutains . . . But all this is unphilosophical to the last degree . . . when thou canst at a moment's notice retire into thyself.

If the gods care not for me and for my children, There is a reason for it.

Am I doing anything? I do it with reference to the good of mankind. Does anything happen to me? I receive it and refer it to the gods, and the source of all things, from which all that happens is derived.