Observe constantly that all things take place by change.

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

No one can keep you from living as your nature requires. Nothings can happen to you that is not required by Nature.

Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.

It will suffice thee to remember as concerning pain ... that the mind may, by stopping all manner of commerce and sympathy with the body, still retain its own tranquility.

A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark.

Things themselves cannot touch the soul, not in the least degree, nor have they admission to the soul nor can they turn or move the soul: it turns and moves itself alone and whatever judgment it may think proper to make, such it makes by remaking for itself the things that present themselves to it