By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.

After all, what does fame everlasting mean? Mere vanity.

Choose not to be harmed and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed and you haven't been.

Find joy in simplicity, self-respect, and indifference to what lies between virtue and vice. Love the human race. Follow the divine.

It is the duty of men to love even those who injure them.

Doctors keep their scalpels and other instruments handy, for emergencies. Keep your philosophy ready too - ready to understand heaven and earth. In everything you do, even the smallest thing, remember the chain that links them. Nothing earthly succeeds by ignoring heaven, nothing heavenly by ignoring earth.

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