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.

The universe is transformation: life is opinion.

It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil.

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?'

Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible; life in a palace is possible; therefore even in a palace a right life is possible.

Which is recorded of Socrates, that he was able both to abstain from, and to enjoy, those things which many are too weak to abstain from, and cannot enjoy without excess. But to be strong enough both to bear the one and to be sober in the other is the mark of a man who has a perfect and invincible soul.

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.