... Allow yourself a space of quiet, wherein you can add to your knowledge of the Good and learn to curb your restlessness. Guard also against another kind of error: the folly of those who weary their days in much business, but lack any aim on which their whole effort, nay, their whole thought, is focused.

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

Keep constantly in mind in how many things you yourself have witnessed changes already. The universe is change, life is understanding.

For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason.

Gluttony and drunkenness have two evils attendant on them; they make the carcass smart, as well as the pocket.

Just as nature takes every obstacle, every impediment, and works around it--turns it to its purposes, incorporates it into itself, so, too, a rational being can turn each setback into raw material and use it to achieve its goal.

Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us.