The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.
How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life
Practice really hearing what people say. Do your best to get inside their mind.
Everything is ephemeral, both that which remembers and that which is remembered.
It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to fly from other men's badness, which is impossible.
Tranquility is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind.