Your time has a limit set to it. Use it, then, to advance your enlightenment; or it will be gone, and never in your power again.

Think of the country mouse and of the town mouse, and of the alarm and trepidation of the town mouse.

In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present - I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then am I dissatisfied if I am going to do the things for which I exist and for which I was brought into the world?

I cannot comprehend how any man can want anything but the truth.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

If thou workest at that which is before thee ... expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with thy present activity according to Nature, and with heroic truth in every word and sound which thou utterest, thou wilt live happy. And there is no man who is able to prevent this.

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