A man does not sin by commission only, but often by omission.

If you are distressed by something, it is due to your own estimate of it; and you have the power to change it at will.

All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare, and a visit to a strange land; the only lasting fame is oblivion.

A spider is proud when it has caught a fly; one man when he has caught a poor hare, and another when he has taken a little fish in a net, and another when he has taken wild boars, and another when he has taken bears, and another when he has taken Sarmatians. Are not these robbers, if you examine their opinions?

It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to fly from other men's badness, which is impossible.

Put an end once and for all to this discussion of what a good person should be, and be one.

The lot assigned to every man is suited to him, and suits him to itself.