I consist of a little body and a soul.

He that lives alone lives in danger; society avoids many dangers.

Consider frequently the connection of all things in the universe and their relation to one another. For things are somehow implicated with one another, and all in a way friendly to one another.

And can anything else that is useful be accomplished without change? Do you not see then that for yourself also to change is just the same, and equally necessary for the universal nature?

Think of the country mouse and of the town mouse, and of the alarm and trepidation of the town mouse.

Retire into thyself. The rational principle which rules has this nature, that it is content with itself when it does what is just, and so secures tranquility.

...the sole thing of which any man can be deprived is the present; since this is all he owns, and nobody can lose what is not his.