Love only what befalls you and is spun for you by fate.

Hast thou reason? I have. Why then dost not thou use it? For if this does its own work, what else dost thou wish?

Reflect often upon the rapidity with which all existing things, or things coming into existence, sweep past us and are carried away.

From Apollonius I learned freedom of will and undeviating steadiness of purpose; and to look to nothing else, not even for a moment, except to reason; and to be always the same, in sharp pains, on the occasion of the loss of a child, and in long illness.

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

The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.

I consist of a little body and a soul.