Put from you the belief that 'I have been wronged', and with it will go the feeling. Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears..

After all, what does fame everlasting mean? Mere vanity..

Socrates used to call the opinions of the many by the name of Lamiae, bugbears to frighten children..

You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can't control. Thes….

Don't let your imagination be crushed by life as a whole..

For any particular thing, ask: What is it in itself? What is its nature?.

It is a disgrace to let ignorance and vanity do more with us than prudence and principle..

All that is harmony for you, my Universe, is in harmony with me as well. Nothing that comes at the right time for you is too early or too late for me….

Know the joy of life by piling good deed on good deed until no rift or cranny appears between them..

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills..

Everything that happens either happens in such a way as you are formed by nature to bear it, or as you are not formed by nature to bear it..

It will suffice thee to remember as concerning pain ... that the mind may, by stopping all manner of commerce and sympathy with the body, still retai….

The perfection of moral character consists in this, in passing every day as the last, and in being neither violently excited nor torpid nor playing t….

Only to the rational animal is it given to follow voluntarily what happens; but simply to follow is a necessity imposed on all..

Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life, - there, if one must speak out, th….

It is a shame for the soul to be first to give way in this life, when thy body does not give way..

Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?.

As thou thyself art a component part of a social system, so let every act of thine be a component part of social life. Whatever act of thine that has….

Yet living and dying, honour and dishonour, pain and pleasure, riches and poverty, and so forth are equally the lot of good men and bad. Things like ….

The intelligence of the universe is social..

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its….