But if we judge only those things which are in our power to be good or bad, there remains no reason either for finding fault with God or standing in ….

The constant recollection of death is the test of human conduct..

Run down the list of those who felt intense anger at something: the most famous, the most unfortunate, the most hated, the most whatever: Where is al….

...the infallible man does not exist..

Do not suffer a sudden impression to overbear your judgment..

Do not waste what remains of your life in speculating about your neighbors, unless with a view to some mutual benefit. To wonder what so-and-so is do….

The mind which is free from passions is a citadel, for man has nothing more secure to which he can fly for refuge and for the future be inexpugnable ….

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be..

If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one ever was truly harme….

The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing..

In man's life, time is but a moment; being, a flux; sense is dim; the material frame corruptible; soul, an eddy of breath; fortune a thing inscrutabl….

Do not disturb yourself by picturing your life as a whole; do not assemble in your mind the many and varied troubles which have come to you in the pa….

I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me. But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character,….

"Sweep me up and send me where you please." For there I will retain my spirit, tranquil and content, as long as it can feel and act in harmony with i….

Think of what you have rather than of what you lack. Of the things you have, select the best and then reflect how eagerly you would have sought them ….

When you have trouble getting out of bed in the morning, remember that your defining characteristic-what defines a human being-is to work with others..

I, who have never willfully pained another, have no business to pain myself..

‎"Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial.

Time is like a river made up of the events which happen, and a violent stream; for as soon as a thing has been seen, it is carried away, and another ….

Men are born for each other's sake, so either teach people or endure them.

I am called to man's labour; why then do I make a difficulty if I am going out to do what I was born to do and what I was brought into the world for?.