Quotes

Do not despise death, but be content with it, since this too is one of those things which nature wills.

Whatever anyone does or says, I must be good.

Retire into yourself. The reason that rules you is content with itself when it does what is just, and so secures tranquillity.

All those things which you wish to reach by a roundabout road, you can have now, if you do not refuse them to yourself.

If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this thing that disturbs you, but your own judgement about it.

Men seek retreats for themselves, in the country, by the sea, in the mountains; and you too are wont to long for such places. But this is altogether naive, for you can retire into yourself whenever you choose.

Begin the morning by saying to yourself: today I shall meet with the busybody, the ungrateful, the arrogant, the deceitful, the envious and the unsocial.

Do not spend too much time on the body; let your chief care be the mind.

Behave as at a banquet: take what is offered to you, and do not reach out for what has not yet come.

Take care of what you have been given as of something entrusted to you, not as something that is yours forever.

If you would improve, be content to be thought foolish by others.

Be not elated at any excellence which belongs to another.