If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception and ignorance.

The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.

Life is a campaign, a brief staying in a strange region.

The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing.

External things are not the problem. It's your assessment of them. Which you can erase right now.

One whose chief regard is for his own mind, and for the divinity within him and the service of its goodness, will strike no poses, utter no complaints, and crave neither for solitude nor yet for a crowd. Best of all, his life will be free from continual pursuing and avoiding.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.