It is not the actions of others which trouble us (for those actions are controlled by their governing part), but rather it is our own judgments. Therefore remove those judgments and resolve to let go of your anger, and it will already be gone. How do you let go? By realizing that such actions are not shameful to you.

In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: 'I am rising to a man's work.'

Confine yourself to the present.

My city and state are Rome. But as a human being? The world. So for me, "good" can only mean what's good for both communities.

If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it.

Consider in what condition both in body and soul a man should be when he is overtaken by death; and consider the shortness of life, the boundless abyss of time past and future, the feebleness of all matter.

The man who has a house everywhere has a home nowhere