The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject..

A man's happiness,-to do the things proper to man..

Reflect frequently upon the instability of things, and how very fast the scenes of nature are shifted. Matter is in perpetual flux. Change is always ….

Do you see what little is required of a man to live a well-tempered and god-fearing life? Obey these precepts, and the gods will ask nothing more..

Whatever may happen to thee, it was prepared for thee from all eternity..

From Apollonius I learned freedom of will and undeviating steadiness of purpose; and to look to nothing else, not even for a moment, except to reason….

Leave the wrong done by another where the wrong arose..

Just consider, my friend, whether a pure spirit and virtue are anything other than saving your life and being saved. Perhaps we need to discard the i….

I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed..

A man should remove not only unnecessary acts, but also unnecessary thoughts, for then superfluous activity will not follow..

Continuously thou wilt look at human things as smoke and nothing at all; especially if thou reflectest at the same time, that what has once changed w….

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good for….

As for others whose lives are not so ordered, he reminds himself constantly of the characters they exhibit daily and nightly at home and abroad, and ….

Cinna wishes to seem poor, and is poor.

There is no misfortune, but to bear it nobly is good fortune..

Since you are an integral part of a social system, let every act of yours contribute to the harmonization of social life. Any action that is not rela….

I consist of a little body and a soul..

To no man make yourself a boon companion: Your joy will be less but less will be your grief.

He who does wrong does wrong against himself. He who acts unjustly acts unjustly to himself, because he makes himself bad..

Were you to live three thousand years, or even thirty thousand, remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the mo….

Constantly regard the universe as one living being, having one substance and one soul; and observe how all things have reference to one perception, t….