Tranquility is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind.

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.

Discard everything except these few truths: we can live only in the present moment, in this brief now; all the rest of our life is dead and buried or shrouded in uncertainty. Short is the life we lead, and small our patch of earth.

Live not one's life as though one had a thousand years, but live each day as the last.

Say to yourself in the early morning: I shall meet today ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. All of these things have come upon them through ignorance of real good and ill... I can neither be harmed by any of them, for no man will involve me in wrong, nor can I be angry with my kinsman or hate him; for we have come into the world to work together.

The man who has a house everywhere has a home nowhere

The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues.