You should banish any thoughts of how you may appear to others.

This is the mark of a perfect character - to pass through each day as though it were the last, without agitation, without torpor, and without pretense.

There is but one thing of real value - to cultivate truth and justice, and to live without anger in the midst of lying and unjust men.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

...small too even the longest fame thereafter, which is itself subject to a succession of little men who quickly die, and have no knowledge of themselves, let alone of those long dead.

When you have been compelled by circumstances to be disturbed in any manner, quickly return to yourself, and do not continue out of tune longer than the compulsion lasts. You will have increasing control over your own harmony by continually returning to it.