You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Soon you will have forgotten the world, and soon the world will have forgotten you.

After all, what does fame everlasting mean? Mere vanity.

Truth and ceremony are two things.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Am I doing anything? I do it with reference to the good of mankind. Does anything happen to me? I receive it and refer it to the gods, and the source of all things, from which all that happens is derived.

"Sweep me up and send me where you please." For there I will retain my spirit, tranquil and content, as long as it can feel and act in harmony with its own nature. Is a change of place enough reason for my soul to become unhappy and worn, for me to become depressed, humbled, cowering, and afraid? Can you discover any reasons for this?