... 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.

Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you.

If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it.

I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed.

Limit time to the present. Meditate upon your last hour.

Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?

Things themselves cannot touch the soul, not in the least degree, nor have they admission to the soul nor can they turn or move the soul: it turns and moves itself alone and whatever judgment it may think proper to make, such it makes by remaking for itself the things that present themselves to it