Nothing proceeds from nothingness, as also nothing passes away into non-existence..

Let no act be done without purpose..

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge..

You need to be prepared for firm decisions and action, without losing gentleness towards those who obstruct or abuse you. It's as great a weakness to….

For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason..

Let thine occupations be few, saith the sage, if thou wouldst lead a tranquil life..

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

Enough of this wretched life and murmuring and apish tricks. Why art thou disturbed? What is there new in this? What unsettles thee? Is it the form o….

Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears..

Every moment think steadily as a Roman and a man to do what thou hast in hand with perfect and simple dignity, and feeling of affection, and freedom,….

External things are not the problem. It's your assessment of them. Which you can erase right now..

A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all - that is myself..

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

Wherever a man lives, he may live well..

Either an ordered Universe or a medley heaped together mechanically but still an order; or can order subsist in you and disorder in the Whole! And th….

Whatever any one does or says, I must be good; just as if the emerald were always saying this: "Whatever any one does or says, I must still be emeral….

Everything is here for a purpose, from horses to vine shoots. What's surprising about that? Even the sun will tell you, "I have a purpose," and the o….

How many together with whom I came into the world are already gone out of it..

What we do now echoes in eternity..

Thou sufferest justly: for thou choosest rather to become good to-morrow than to be good to-day..

A man should always have these two rules in readiness. First, to do only what the reason of your ruling and legislating faculties suggest for the ser….