Why should any of these things that happen externally distract thee? Give thyself leisure to learn some good thing: cease roving to and fro.

...in the ways of Nature there is no evil to be found.

Whatever any one does or says, I must be good; just as if the emerald were always saying this: "Whatever any one does or says, I must still be emerald, and keep my color.

At day's first light have in readiness, against disinclination to leave your bed, the thought that "I am rising for the work of man."

No one can lose either the past or the future - how could anyone be deprived of what he does not possess? ... It is only the present moment of which either stands to be deprived: and if this is all he has, he cannot lose what he does not have.

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

If this is neither my own badness, nor an effect of my own badness, and the common weal is not injured, why am I troubled about it? And what is the harm to the common weal?