Life is short. That's all there is to say. Get what you can from the present - thoughtfully, justly.

Consider frequently the connection of all things in the universe and their relation to one another. For things are somehow implicated with one another, and all in a way friendly to one another.

But this is altogether a mark of the most common sort of men, for it is in your power whenever you choose to retire into yourself.

"Sweep me up and send me where you please." For there I will retain my spirit, tranquil and content, as long as it can feel and act in harmony with its own nature. Is a change of place enough reason for my soul to become unhappy and worn, for me to become depressed, humbled, cowering, and afraid? Can you discover any reasons for this?

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.

Every instant of time... is a pinprick of eternity.

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.