Quotes

Whoever wishes to be free, let him neither wish for anything nor avoid anything which depends on others.

Disease is an impediment to the body, but not to the will, unless the will itself chooses.

Immediately prescribe some character and some form to yourself, which you shall observe both when you are alone and when you meet with men.

Your duty is to act well the part that is given to you; but to select the part belongs to another.

Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.

Are you not ashamed that you care for wealth, reputation and honour, but do not care for wisdom, truth and your own soul?

Those who practise philosophy in the right way are in training for dying.

Every soul is immortal.

The just man sets in order his own inner life, and is his own master and at peace with himself.

The fear of death is nothing other than the pretence of wisdom, for it is to think one knows what one does not know.

It is not enough to possess virtue; one must put it to use.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.