A man should be upright, not kept upright..

Remember that to change your mind and follow him who sets you right is to be none the less free than you were before..

Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one. Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason..

If you do everything as if it were the last thing you were doing in your life, and stop being aimless, stop letting your emotions override what your ….

Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man - yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee,….

He who follows reason in all things is both tranquil and active at the same time, and also cheerful and collected..

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking..

Observe always that everything is the result of a change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing f….

Now departure from the world of men is nothing to fear, if gods exist: because they would not involve you in any harm. If they do not exist, or if th….

Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues yo….

No one can keep you from living as your nature requires. Nothings can happen to you that is not required by Nature..

And finally remember that nothing harms him who is really a citizen, which does not harm the state; nor yet does anything harm the state which does n….

The time is at hand when you will have forgotten everything; and the time is at hand when all will have forgotten you. Always reflect that soon you w….

Never forget that the universe is a single living organism possessed of one substance and one soul, holding all things suspended in a single consciou….

To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing - here is the perfection of character..

Not even the vicissitudes of fortune are contrary to nature or to the providential ordering of the universe. It all flows from the gods, who determin….

He who fears death either fears the loss of sensation or a different kind of sensation. But if thou shalt have no sensation, neither wilt thou feel a….

Why do you hunger for length of days? The point of life is to follow reason and the divine spirit and to accept whatever nature sends you. To live in….

If anyone can refute me-show me I'm making a mistake or looking at things from the wrong perspective-I'l l gladly change. It's the truth I'm after, a….

Remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment..

When we consider we are bound to be serviceable to mankind, and bear with their faults, we shall perceive there is a common tie of nature and relatio….