Do what you will. Even if you tear yourself apart, most people will continue doing the same things..

The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around them. That's all you need to know. Nothing more. Don't dema….

Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten, when their noblest and most enduring works decay? Death comes even to monumental structures, and obl….

Imagine you were now dead, or had not lived before his moment. Now view the rest of your life as a bonus..

Keep yourself simple, good, pure, serious, and unassuming; the friend of justice and godliness; kindly, affectionate, and resolute in your devotion t….

The universal nature has no external space; but the wondrous part of her art is that though she has circumscribed herself, everything which is within….

The nature of the universe is the nature of things that are. Now, things that are have kinship with things that are from the beginning. Further, this….

Everything is ephemeral, both that which remembers and that which is remembered..

Consider when thou art much vexed or grieved, that man's life is only a moment, and after a short time we are all laid out dead..

I cannot comprehend how any man can want anything but the truth..

Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against making assumptions that are contrary to nature and ….

It is a base thing for the countenance to be obedient and to regulate and compose itself as the mind commands, and for the mind not to be regulated a….

Within ten days thou wilt seem a god to those to whom thou art now a beast and an ape, if thou wilt return to thy principles and the worship of reaso….

Things can never touch the soul, but stand inert outside it, so that disquiet can arise only from fancies within..

Everything that happens, happens as it should..

No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be emerald, my color undiminished..

If man reflects on the changes and transformations which follow one another like wave after wave and their rapidity, he will despise everything which….

In the case of most pains let this remark of Epicurus aid thee, that the pain is neither intolerable nor everlasting, if thou bear in mind that it ha….

What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee..

Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what's left and live it properly. What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness..

Everything - a horse, a vine - is created for some duty... For what task, then, were you yourself created?.