By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered..

To my great-grandfather I owed the advice to dispense with the education of the schools and have good masters at home instead - and to realize that n….

He would be the finer gentleman that should leave the world without having tasted of lying or pretence of any sort, or of wantonness or conceit..

The man who doesn't know what the universe is doesn't know where he lives..

The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle..

Let goodness go with the doing..

In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: 'I am rising to a man's work.'.

...in the ways of Nature there is no evil to be found..

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

There is change in all things. You yourself are subject to continual change and some decay, and this is common to the entire universe..

Nature set a limit on sleep - as it did on eating and drinking. And youre over the limit. But not of working. There youre still below your quota. You….

Never act without purpose and resolve, or without the means to finish the job..

If it's time for you to go, leave willingly - as you would to accomplish anything that can be done with grace and honor..

This thou must always bear in mind, what is the nature of the whole, and what is my nature, and how this is related to that, and what kind of a p….

Vex not thy spirit at the course of things; they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that may happen in ….

Welcome every experience the looms of fate may weave for you..

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to….

You are making an inopportune rejection of what Nature has given you today, if all your mind is set on what men will say of you tomorrow..

Receive the gifts of fortune without pride, and part with them without reluctance..

I bless the gods for not letting my education in rhetoric, poetry, and other literary studies come easily to me, and thereby sparing me from an absor….

People find pressure in different ways. I find it in keeping my mind clear. In not turning away from people or the things that happen to them. In acc….