You need to avoid certain things in your train of thought: everything random, everything irrelevant. And certainly everything self-important or malicious. You need to get used to winnowing your thoughts, so that if someone says,...

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

Do not disturb yourself by picturing your life as a whole; do not assemble in your mind the many and varied troubles which have come to you in the past and will come again in...

A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

Who persuaded you to cut off the nose of your wife’s lover? Wretched husband, that was not the part which outraged you! Fool, what have you done? Your wife has lost nothing by the operation

A man’s worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions

No man is quick enough to enjoy life

It certainly is uncomfortable for everybody. It’s somewhat of an anomaly. We’re still in August but temperatures like this are uncommon.

Blame and praise have no true effects.

Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?

That which is really beautiful has no need of anything; not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence or modesty.

It is not the actions of others which trouble us (for those actions are controlled by their governing part), but rather it is our own judgments. Therefore remove those judgments and resolve to let go...

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

Be your own master, and look at things as a man, as a human being, as a citizen, as a mortal creature.

A man should remove not only unnecessary acts, but also unnecessary thoughts, for then superfluous activity will not follow after

Galla will, and will not comply with my wishes and I cannot tell with her willing and not willing, what she wills

Execute every act of life as though it were thy last

I would rather smell of nothing than of perfume

Do not be ashamed of help.

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.

Every hour be firmly resolved… to accomplish the work at hand with fitting and unaffected dignity, goodwill, freedom, justice. Banish from your thoughts all other considerations. This is possible if you perform each act as...

Give up your thirst for books, so that you do not die a grouch.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ‘This is a misfortune’ but ‘To bear this worthily is good fortune.’

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man’s life.

Knowledge the clue to life can give: Then wherefore hesitate to live

If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgment of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgment now.

When I was ill, you came to me, Doctor, and with great urgency A hundred students brought With you A most instructive case to view The hundred fingered me with hands Chill’d by the blasts...

Live with the gods. And he does so who constantly shows them that his soul is satisfied with what is assigned to him.

How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.

When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love …

You should always be ready to apply these two rules of action, the first, to do nothing other than what the kingly and law-making art ordains for the benefits of humankind, and, the second, to...

Everything that happens, happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

Live every day as if they last.

Poverty is the mother of crime.

Men exist for the sake of one another.

Each day provides its own gifts

Life is a stranger’s sojourn, a night at an inn

Are you astonished Aulus, that our friend Fabullinus is so frequently deceived? A good man has always something to learn in regard to fraud

Always observe how ephemeral and worthless human things are. Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is...

You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can’t control. These things are not asking to be...

Don’t go on discussing what a good person should be. Just be one.

When you arise in the moring, think of what a precious privelege it is to be alive– to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love

The universe is flux, life is opinion.

Each day provides its own gifts.

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

…praise does not make anything better or worse.

With only half a lip you kiss, And half of that I ne’er’ should miss, A greater boon, of worth untold, Wilt grant me? That whole half withhold

Nothing in nature is evil.