There is a limit circumscribed to your time – if you do not use it to clear away your clouds, it will be gone, and you will be gone, and the opportunity will not return

Whoever values peace of mind and the health of the soul will live the best of all possible lives.

...small too even the longest fame thereafter, which is itself subject to a succession of little men who quickly die, and have no knowledge of themselves, let alone of those long dead.

Accustom yourself not to be disregarding of what someone else has to say: as far as possible enter into the mind of the speaker.

Why do you hunger for length of days? The point of life is to follow reason and the divine spirit and to accept whatever nature sends you. To live in this way is not to fear death, but to hold it in contempt. Death is only a thing of terror for those unable to live in the present. Pass on your way, then, with a smiling face, under the smile of him who bids you go

There is no misfortune, but to bear it nobly is good fortune.

A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something.