No man is happy who does not think himself so.

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.

He who eats my bread, does my will.

Look at everything that exists, and observe that it is already in dissolution and in change, and as it were putrefaction or dispersion, or that everything is so constituted by nature as to die.

A spider is proud when it has caught a fly; one man when he has caught a poor hare, and another when he has taken a little fish in a net, and another when he has taken wild boars, and another when he has taken bears, and another when he has taken Sarmatians. Are not these robbers, if you examine their opinions?

Things can never touch the soul, but stand inert outside it, so that disquiet can arise only from fancies within.

Be not unwilling in what thou doest, neither selfish nor unadvised nor obstinate; let not over-refinement deck out thy thought; be not wordy nor a busybody.