Everything that happens either happens in such a way as you are formed by nature to bear it, or as you are not formed by nature to bear it.

Observe always that everything is the result of a change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and to make new ones like them.

Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you would crave for them if they were not yours.

The constant recollection of death is the test of human conduct.

This is the chief thing: be not perturbed, for all things are according to the nature of the universal.

Welcome every experience the looms of fate may weave for you.

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.