In death, Alexander of Macedon's end differed no whit from his stable-boy's. Either both were received into the same generative principle of the universe, or both alike were dispersed into atoms.

Since you are an integral part of a social system, let every act of yours contribute to the harmonization of social life. Any action that is not related directly or remotely to this social aim disturbs your life, and destroys your unity.

Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.

Things can never touch the soul, but stand inert outside it, so that disquiet can arise only from fancies within.

Receive without conceit, release without struggle.

To my great-grandfather I owed the advice to dispense with the education of the schools and have good masters at home instead - and to realize that no expense should be grudged for this purpose.

Why should any of these things that happen externally distract thee? Give thyself leisure to learn some good thing: cease roving to and fro.