Most of what we say and do is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you'll have more time, and more tranquillity. Ask yourself at every moment, 'Is this necessary?'

Change your attitude to the things that bother you and you will be aware of them.

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.

Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and ay, 'Why were things of this sort ever brought into the world?'

A spider is proud when it has caught a fly; one man when he has caught a poor hare, and another when he has taken a little fish in a net, and another when he has taken wild boars, and another when he has taken bears, and another when he has taken Sarmatians. Are not these robbers, if you examine their opinions?

This is the chief thing: be not perturbed, for all things are according to the nature of the universal.

Alexander the Great and his mule driver both died and the same thing happened to both.