If you separate from . . . everything you have done in the past, everything that disturbs you about the future . . . and apply yourself to living the life that you are living-that is to say, the present-you can live all the time that remains to you until your death in calm, benevolence, and serenity.

If this is neither my own badness, nor an effect of my own badness, and the common weal is not injured, why am I troubled about it? And what is the harm to the common weal?

Remind oneself continually of one of those who practiced virtue in days gone by.

If I and my two children cannot move the gods, the gods must have their reasons.

If it's time for you to go, leave willingly - as you would to accomplish anything that can be done with grace and honor.

Just as nature takes every obstacle, every impediment, and works around it--turns it to its purposes, incorporates it into itself, so, too, a rational being can turn each setback into raw material and use it to achieve its goal.

Live each day as if it be your last.