Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you would crave for them if they were not yours.

A man is a little soul carrying around a courpse.

That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse: it has no power to harm, without or within.

Because a thing is difficult for you, do not therefore suppose it to be beyond mortal power. On the contrary, if anything is possible and proper for man to do, assume that it must fall within your own capacity.

Remember that to change your mind and follow him who sets you right is to be none the less free than you were before.

Everything that happens either happens in such a way as you are formed by nature to bear it, or as you are not formed by nature to bear it.

You exist but as a part inherent in a greater whole. Do not live as though you had a thousand years before you. The common due impends; while you live, and while you may, be good.