"When some state or other offered Alexander a part of its territory and half of all its property he told them that he hadn't come to Asia with the intention of accepting whatever they cared to give him, but of letting them keep whatever he chose to leave them.' Philosophy, likewise, tells all other occupations: It's not my intention to accept whatever time is leftover from you; you shall have, instead, what I reject.' Give your whole mind to her."

When one has lost a friend one's eyes should be neither dry nor streaming. Tears, yes, there should be, but not lamentation.

See what daily exercise does for one.

If you shape your life according to nature, you will never be poor; if according to people's opinions, you will never be rich.

The wise man…lacked nothing but needed a great number of things, whereas the fool, on the other hand, needs nothing (for he does not know how to use anything) but lacks everything.

These individuals have riches just as we say that we "have a fever" when really the fever has us.

You want to live—but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying—and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?

Be harsh with yourself at times.

So called pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.

Let us fight the battle—retreat from the things that attract us and rouse ourselves to meet the things that actually attack us.

Everything hangs on one's thinking.

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