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.
For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
Every journey has an end.
The wise man then followed a simple way of life-which is hardly surprising when you consider how even in this modern age he seeks to be as little encumbered as he possibly can.
What difference does it make, after all, what your position in life is if you dislike it yourself?
On entering a temple we assume all signs of reverence. How much more reverent then should we be before the heavenly bodies, the stars, the very nature of God!
Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.
How many discoveries are reserved for the ages to come when our memory shall be no more, for this world of ours contains matter for investigation for all generations.