Consider in what condition both in body and soul a man should be when he is overtaken by death; and consider the shortness of life, the boundless abyss of time past and future, the feebleness of all matter.

If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it.

When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

If any man should conceive certain things as being really good, such as prudence, temperance, justice, fortitude, he would not after having first conceived these endure to listen to anything which should not be in harmony with what is really good.