Be content to seem what you really are.

Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.

Remember: Matter: how tiny your share of it. Time: how brief and fleeting your allotment of it. Fate: how small a role you play in it.

When you have trouble getting out of bed in the morning, remember that your defining characteristic-what defines a human being-is to work with others.

If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt.

The substance of the universe is obedient and compliant; and the reason which governs it has in itself no cause for doing evil, for it has no malice, nor does it do evil to anything, nor is anything harmed by it. But all things are made and perfected according to this reason.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.