Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith..

Unhappy am I because this has happened to me.- Not so, but happy am I, though this has happened to me, because I continue free from pain, neither cru….

The gods gave me a father who ruled over me and rid me of any trace of arrogance and showed me that one can live in a palace without bodyguards, extr….

Stop talking about what the good man is like, and just be one..

Does a man shrink from change? Why, what can come into being save by change?.

Why should a man have any apprehension about the change and dissolution of all the elements? For it is according to nature, and nothing is evil which….

Nature which governs the whole will soon change all things which you see, and out of their substance will make other things and again other things...….

Take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature..

Be satisfied with your business, and learn to love what you were bred to..

The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues..

Thanks to the gods I didn't spend much time while growing up with my grandfather's mistress and preserved the flower of my youth, waiting for the pro….

In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence.

From Plato: the man who has an elevated mind and takes a view of all time and of all substance, dost thou suppose it possible for him to think that h….

All things of the body stream away like a river, all things of the mind are dreams and delusion; life is warfare, and a visit to a strange land; the ….

Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished..

Find joy in simplicity, self-respect, and indifference to what lies between virtue and vice. Love the human race. Follow the divine..

Life is a stranger's sojourn, a night at an inn..

Retire into thyself. The rational principle which rules has this nature, that it is content with itself when it does what is just, and so secures tra….

Enter others' minds and let them enter yours..

There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight..

At day's first light have in readiness, against disinclination to leave your bed, the thought that "I am rising for the work of man.".