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.

Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them.

Swiftly the remembrance of all things is buried in the gulf of eternity.

All things fade and quickly turn to myth.

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.

I think he needs our pity who likes none

When the blandishments of life are gone, the coward creeps to death – the brave lives on

One universe made up all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

Your legs and breast bristle with shaggy hair but your mind, Pannicus, shows no signs of manliness

Come, Caesar, even by night – let stars delay; If thou but come, thy folk will find it day

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.

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