Say to yourself in the early morning: I shall meet today inquisitive, ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. All these things have come upon them through ignorance of real good and ill.

You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.

The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.

This thou must always bear in mind, what is the nature of the whole...

Τούτων ἀεὶ μεμνῆσθαι, τίς ἡ τῶν ὅλων φύσις

A man should be upright, not kept upright.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed.

By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.

Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, sea-shores, and mountains; and thou too art wont to desire such things very much. But this is altogether a mark of the most common sort of men, for it is in thy power whenever thou shalt choose to retire into thyself. For nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul