How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

Only to the rational animal is it given to follow voluntarily what happens; but simply to follow is a necessity imposed on all.

We must press on then, in haste; not simply because every hour brings us nearer to death, but because even before then our powers of perception and comprehension begin to deteriorate.

Regain your senses, call yourself back, and once again wake up. Now that you realize that only dreams were troubling you, view this 'reality' as you view your dreams.

Death hangs over thee, While thou still live, while thou may, do good.