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

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

Put from you the belief that 'I have been wronged', and with it will go the feeling. Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.

Let your one delight and refreshment be to pass from one service to the community to another, with God ever in mind.

Now departure from the world of men is nothing to fear, if gods exist: because they would not involve you in any harm. If they do not exist, or if they have no care for humankind, then what is life to me in a world devoid of gods, or devoid of providence? But they do exist, and they do care for humankind: and they have put it absolutely in man's power to avoid falling into the true kinds of harm.

It will suffice thee to remember as concerning pain ... that the mind may, by stopping all manner of commerce and sympathy with the body, still retain its own tranquility.

Dress not thy thoughts in too fine a raiment. And be not a man of superfluous words or superfluous deeds.