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?.

All things are changing; and thou thyself art in continuous mutation and in a manner in continuous destruction and the whole universe to..

Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you w….

Always run to the short way; and the short way is the natural: accordingly say and do everything in conformity with the soundest reason. For such a p….

No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such.

Take it that you have died today, and your life's story is ended; and henceforward regard what future time may be given you as uncovenanted surplus, ….

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish..

Short is the little which remains to thee of life. Live as on a mountain..

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspir….

For nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul, particularly when he has within him such th….

Wilt thou, then, my soul, never be good and simple and one and naked, more manifest than the body which surrounds thee?.

So you know how things stand. Now forget what they think of you. Be satisfied if you can live the rest of your life, however short, as your nature de….

Why dost thou not pray... to give thee the faculty of not fearing any of the things which thou fearest, or of not desiring any of the things which th….

From the philosopher Catulus, never to be dismissive of a friend's accusation, even if it seems unreasonable, but to make every effort to restore the….

Every being ought to do that which is according to its constitution; and all other things have been constituted for the sake of the superior, but the….

How soon will time cover all things..

Persuade me or prove to me that I am mistaken in thought or deed, and I will gladly change - for it is the truth I seek, and the truth never harmed a….

Anything that is beautiful is beautiful just as it is. Praise forms no part of its beauty, since praise makes things neither better nor worse. This a….

Turn thy thoughts now to the consideration of thy life, thy life as a child, as a youth, thy manhood, thy old age, for in these also every change was….