How easy it is to repel and release every impression which is troublesome and immediately to be tranquil.

No one can lose either the past or the future - how could anyone be deprived of what he does not possess? ... It is only the present moment of which either stands to be deprived: and if this is all he has, he cannot lose what he does not have.

The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.

Men exist for the sake of one another.

A person's life is what their thoughts make it.

Above, below, all around are the movements of the elements. But the motion of virtue is in none of these: it is something more divine, and advancing by a way hardly observed it goes happily on its road.

Men despise one another and flatter one another; and men wish to raise themselves above one another, and crouch before one another.