That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse: it has no power to harm, without or within.
Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it.
Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.
Be tolerant with others and strict with yourself.
By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.
If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it.