Regain your senses, call yourself back, and once again wake up. Now that you realize that only dreams were troubling you, view this ‘reality’ as you view your dreams.

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of...

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

A wrong – doer is often a man that has left something undone, not always he that has done something

When a poet presents you with blank leaves you should consider it no small present

The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

It is in your own power to maintain the beauty of your soul, or to be a decent human being.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.

Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it.

The pride which is proud of want of pride is the most intolerable of all.

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

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

The present joys of life we doubly taste by looking back with pleasure on the past

All is ephemeral, – fame and the famous as well

Death hangs over thee, While thou still live, while thou may, do good

Remember how often you have postponed minding your interest, and let slip those opportunities the gods have given you. It is now high time to consider what sort of world you are part of, and...

Whatever may befall thee, it was preordained for thee from everlasting

And in the case of superior things like stars, we discover a kind of unity in separation. The higher we rise on the scale of being, the easier it is to discern a connection even...

Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.

Don’t let yourself forget how many doctors have died, furrowing their brows over how many deathbeds. How many astrologers, after pompous forecasts about others’ ends. How many philosophers, after endless disquisitions on death and immortality....

Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.

He misses what is meant by epigram – who thinks it only frivolous flimflam

Good men make life a twofold span to last: Twice does he live who can enjoy his past

Socrates gave as his reason for declining an invitation to the court of Perdiccas, “I have no wish to go down to my grave with ignominy;” implying that he would accept no favor which he...

Gifts are like hooks

I think if we had the same magnitude of devastation that they had, we would be very much challenged as well,

What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.

How good it is, when you have roast meat or suchlike foods before you, to impress on your mind that this is the dead body of a fish, this the dead body of a bird...

Live out your life in truth and justice, tolerant of those who are neither true nor just.

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.

Some good, some so-so, and lots plain bad: that’s how a book of poems is made, my friend

Whatever may happen to you was prepared for you from all eternity; and the implication of causes was from eternity spinning the thread of your being.

Your face is black, your hair like flame, And one eye’s damaged, one foot lame: If, still, you’re quite decent chap – Well ’tis a feather in your cap

How strangely men act. They will not praise those who are living at the same time and living with themselves; but to be themselves praised by posterity, by those whom they have never seen or...

Retire into thyself. The rational principle which rules has this nature,that it is content with itself when it does what is just, and so securestranquility.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

No man is happy who does not think himself so.

It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to fly from other men’s badness, which is impossible.

There’s nothing more insufferable than people who boast about their own humility

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Take away your opinion, and then there is taken away the complaint, ‘I have been harmed.’ Take away the complaint, ‘I have been harmed,’ and the harm is taken away.

Take full account of what excellencies which you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.