A man should remove not only unnecessary acts, but also unnecessary thoughts, for then superfluous activity will not follow.

It is in your power to withdraw yourself whenever you desire. Perfect tranquility within consists in the good ordering of the mind, the realm of your own.

Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is good or evil.

While you live, while it is in your power, be good.

The perfection of moral character consists in this, in passing every day as the last, and in being neither violently excited nor torpid nor playing the hypocrite.

Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it.

How many together with whom I came into the world are already gone out of it.