We must press on then, in haste; not simply because every hour brings us nearer to death, but because even before then our powers of perception and comprehension begin to deteriorate.

... Allow yourself a space of quiet, wherein you can add to your knowledge of the Good and learn to curb your restlessness. Guard also against another kind of error: the folly of those who weary their days in much business, but lack any aim on which their whole effort, nay, their whole thought, is focused.

Vex not thy spirit at the course of things, they heed not thy vexations

A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all - that is myself.

Let it judge that nothing is either bad or good which can happen equally to the bad man and the good. For that which happens equally to him who lives contrary to nature and to him who lives according to nature, is neither according to nature nor contrary to nature.

The stone that is thrown into the air is none the worse for falling down, and none the better for going up.

Today I escaped all circumstance, or rather I cast out all circumstance, for it was not outside me, but within my judgements.