Keep in mind how fast things pass by and are gone - those that are now, and those to come. Existence flows past us like a river; the "what" is in con….

Don't let your imagination to be crushed by life as a whole. Don't try to pictures everything bad that could possibly happen. Stick with the situatio….

It is right that man should love those who have offended him. He will do so when he remembers that all men are his relations, and that it is through ….

Consider that everything is opinion, and opinion is in thy power..

The honest and good man ought to be exactly like a man who smells strong, so that the bystander as soon as he comes near him must smell whether he ch….

Reflect often upon the rapidity with which all existing things, or things coming into existence, sweep past us and are carried away..

Consider frequently the connection of all things in the universe and their relation to one another. For things are somehow implicated with one anothe….

To my great-grandfather I owed the advice to dispense with the education of the schools and have good masters at home instead - and to realize that n….

It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil..

The whole universe is change and life itself is but what you deem it.

If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: th….

What doesn't transmit light creates its own darkness..

The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle..

If it's time for you to go, leave willingly - as you would to accomplish anything that can be done with grace and honor..

Always bear this in mind, that very little indeed is necessary for living a happy life..

Be like the cliff against which the waves continually break; but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it..

Even the stoics agree that certainty is very hard to come at; that our assent is worth little, for where is infallibility to be found?.

...in the ways of Nature there is no evil to be found..

How powerful is man! He is able to do all that God wishes him to do. He is able to accept all that God sends upon him..

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the gra….

Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one..