Quotes

Nothing happens to any man which he is not formed by nature to bear.

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

Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.

He who does wrong does wrong against himself.

Neither the future nor the past pains you, but only the present.

Love the art, poor as it may be, which you have learned, and be content with it.

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.