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

Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.

What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.

Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature.

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

There is change in all things. You yourself are subject to continual change and some decay, and this is common to the entire universe.

Think nothing profitable to you which compels you to break a promise, to lose your self respect, to hate any person, to curse, to act the hypocrite.