The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

It's time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet.

If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this thing that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it. It is in your power to erase this judgment about it. If anything in your own nature gives you pain, you are who hinders you from correcting your opinion.

Leave the wrong done by another where the wrong arose.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

In death, Alexander of Macedon's end differed no whit from his stable-boy's. Either both were received into the same generative principle of the universe, or both alike were dispersed into atoms.

Do not fear death, but welcome it, since it too comes from nature. For just as we are young and grow old, and flourish and reach maturity, have teeth and a beard and grey hairs, conceive, become pregnant, and bring forth new life, and all the other natural processes that follow the seasons of our existence, so also do we have death. A thoughtful person will never take death lightly, impatiently, or scornfully, but will wait for it as one of life's natural processes.