Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

My only fear is doing something contrary to human nature - the wrong thing, the wrong way, or at the wrong time.

Everything - a horse, a vine - is created for some duty... For what task, then, were you yourself created?

Remember that all is opinion. For what was said by the Cynic Monimus is manifest: and manifest too is the use of what was said, if a man receives what may be got out of it as far as it is true.

Nature has given to each conscious being every power she possesses, and one of these abilities is this: just as Nature converts and alters every obstacle and opposition, and fits them into their predestined place, making them a part of herself, so too the rational person is able to finesse every obstacle into an opportunity, and to use it for whatever purpose it may suit.

Nothing proceeds from nothingness, as also nothing passes away into non-existence.

When you have trouble getting out of bed in the morning, remember that your defining characteristic-what defines a human being-is to work with others.