Enough of this wretched life and murmuring and apish tricks. Why art thou disturbed? What is there new in this? What unsettles thee? Is it the form of the thing? Look at it. Or is it the matter? Look at it. But besides these there is nothing. Towards the gods, then, now become at last more simple and better. It is the same whether we examine these things for a hundred years or three.

It's silly to try to escape other people's faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.

Gluttony and drunkenness have two evils attendant on them; they make the carcass smart, as well as the pocket.

In the same degree in which a man's mind is nearer to freedom from all passion, in the same degree also is it nearer to strength.

A man's happiness,-to do the things proper to man.

If any man can convince me and bring home to me that I do not think or act aright, gladly will I change; for I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed. But he is harmed who abideth on still in his deception and ignorance.

Try to live the life of the good man who is more than content with what is allocated to him.