He who follows reason in all things is both tranquil and active at the same time, and also cheerful and collected.
There was a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish, it was so fragile.
If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it.
Be satisfied with your business, and learn to love what you were bred to.
Love the people with whom fate brings you together.
Remember that there is a God who desires neither praise nor glory from men created in his image, but rather that they, guided by the understanding given them, should in their actions become like unto him.
A lucky chance is constant in nothing but inconstancy.
He that lives alone lives in danger; society avoids many dangers.
Embellish the soul with simplicity, with prudence, and everything which is neither virtuous nor vicious. Love all men. Walk according to God; for, as a poet hath said, his laws govern all.
Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten, when their noblest and most enduring works decay? Death comes even to monumental structures, and oblivion rests on the most illustrious names.
It were well to die if there be gods, and sad to live if there be none.
God overrules all mutinous accidents, brings them under His laws of fate, and makes them all serviceable to His purpose.
Receive the gifts of fortune without pride, and part with them without reluctance.
Happiness is no other than soundness and perfection of mind.
Everything is mere opinion.
It is possible to depart from life at this moment. Have this thought in mind whenever you act, speak, or think.
Why should any of these things that happen externally distract thee? Give thyself leisure to learn some good thing: cease roving to and fro.
Your mind will take on the character of your most frequent thoughts: souls are dyed by thoughts.
A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark.
Turn thy thoughts now to the consideration of thy life, thy life as a child, as a youth, thy manhood, thy old age, for in these also every change was a death. Is this anything to fear?