Vex not thy spirit at the course of things, they heed not thy vexations

A man should remove not only unnecessary acts, but also unnecessary thoughts, for then superfluous activity will not follow.

Receive the gifts of fortune without pride, and part with them without reluctance.

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.

Your mind will be like its habitual thoughts; for the soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. Soak it then in such trains of thoughts as, for example: Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible.

For nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul, particularly when he has within him such thoughts that by looking into them he is immediately in perfect tranquility; and I affirm that tranquility is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind.

Remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment.