Put an end once and for all to this discussion of what a good person should be, and be one.

...the sole thing of which any man can be deprived is the present; since this is all he owns, and nobody can lose what is not his.

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

When you need encouragement, think of the qualities the people around you have: this one's energy, that one's modesty, another's generosity, and so on. Nothing is as encouraging as when virtues are visibly embodied in the people around us, when we're practically showered with them. It's good to keep this in mind.

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

Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.

Things that have a common quality ever quickly seek their kind.