If unwilling to rise in the morning, say to thyself, 'I awake to do the work of a man.'

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

To no man make yourself a boon companion: Your joy will be less but less will be your grief

Stop whatever you're doing for a moment and ask yourself: Am I afraid of death because I won't be able to do this anymore?

Everything is here for a purpose, from horses to vine shoots. What's surprising about that? Even the sun will tell you, "I have a purpose," and the other goods as well.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

Every moment think steadily as a Roman and a man to do what thou hast in hand with perfect and simple dignity, and feeling of affection, and freedom, and justice; and to give thyself relief from all other thoughts. And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last, laying aside all carelessness and passionate aversion from the commands of reason, and all hypocrisy, and self-love, and discontent with the portion which has been given to thee.