Be like the rocky headland on which the waves constantly break. It stands firm, and round it the seething waters are laid to rest.

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

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

All things change, and you yourself are constantly wasting away. So also is the universe.

A wrongdoer is often a man who has left something undone, not always one who has done something.

I am called to man's labour; why then do I make a difficulty if I am going out to do what I was born to do and what I was brought into the world for?