Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.
Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
How can a thing possibly govern others when it cannot be governed itself?
How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.
Let us fight the battle-retreat from the things that attract us and rouse ourselves to meet the things that actually attack us.
We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which someone can!
You have to persevere and fortify your pertinacity until the will to good becomes a disposition to good.
A good character is the only guarantee of everlasting, carefree happiness.
No one should feel pride in anything that is not his own.
Away with the world’s opinion of you-it’s always unsettled and divided.
There is about wisdom a nobility and magnificence in the fact that she doesn’t just fall to a person’s lot, that each man owes her to his own efforts, that one doesn’t go to anyone other than oneself to find her.
The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort.
Death: There’s nothing bad about it at all except the thing that comes before it-the fear of it.
Refuse to let the thought of death bother you: nothing is grim when we have escaped that fear.
When one has lost a friend one’s eyes should be neither dry nor streaming. Tears, yes, there should be, but not lamentation.
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
Every day, therefore, should be regulated as if it were the one that brings up the rear, the one that rounds out and completes our lives.
Just where death is expecting you is something we cannot know; so, for your part, expect him everywhere.
See what daily exercise does for one.
So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.