It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you, but ever that of the present alone. Even this burden, too, can be lessened if you confine it strictly to its own limits.

Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.

Submit to the fate of your own free will.

The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.

The whole universe is change and life itself is but what you deem it - either gratefully better than or bitterly worse than something else that you alone choose.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

Remember that all is opinion. For what was said by the Cynic Monimus is manifest: and manifest too is the use of what was said, if a man receives what may be got out of it as far as it is true.