What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.

Remember that all is opinion. For what was said by the Cynic Monimus is manifest: and manifest too is the use of what was said, if a man receives what may be got out of it as far as it is true.

Leave other people's mistakes where they lie.

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

It were well to die if there be gods, and sad to live if there be none.

Do not consider anything for your interest which makes you break your word, quit your modesty or inclines you to any practice which will not bear the light or look the world in the face.

Time is like a river made up of the events which happen, and a violent stream; for as soon as a thing has been seen, it is carried away, and another comes in its place, and this will be carried away too.