If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this thing that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it. It is in your power to erase this judgment about it. If anything in your own nature gives you pain, you are who hinders you from correcting your opinion.

In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present - I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then am I dissatisfied if I am going to do the things for which I exist and for which I was brought into the world?

Either an ordered Universe or a medley heaped together mechanically but still an order; or can order subsist in you and disorder in the Whole! And that, too, when all things are so distinguished and yet intermingled and sympathetic.

Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.

Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.

So much worse are the consequences of anger than its causes.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.