A man's happiness: to do the things proper to man.
Try to live the life of the good man who is more than content with what is allocated to him.
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
Take full account of the excellencies which you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.
Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.
There is change in all things. You yourself are subject to continual change and some decay, and this is common to the entire universe.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts... take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
It is not dearth that a man should fear, he should fear never beginning to live.
Without a purpose, nothing should be done.
There is no man so blessed that some who stand by his deathbed won't hail the occasion with delight.
A man's worth is no greater than the worth of his ambition.
Vex not thy spirit the course of things; they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that may happen in life.
A man should be upright, not be kept upright.Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
A man's life is what his thoughts make it.
This is the chief thing: be not perturbed, for all things are according to the nature of the universal.
To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing - here is perfection of character.
Look well into thyself; there is a source which will always spring up if thou wilt always search there.
The sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment.
Why d we shrink from change? What can come into being save by change.?
A man should remove not only unnecessary acts, but also unnecessary thoughts, for then superfluous activity will not follow.
The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues.
How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.
Every man's life lies within the present, for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.
Each day provides its own gifts.
Man must be arched and buttressed from within, else the temple wavers to dust.
The one thing worth living for is to keep one's soul pure.
What pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies...the real man.
Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved.
Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.
To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
Love only what befalls you and is spun for you by fate.
To them that ask, where have you seen the Gods, or how do you know for certain there are Gods, that you are so devout in their worship? I answer: Neither have I ever seen my own soul, and yet I respect and honor it.''
The passing minute is every man's equal possession but what has once gone by is not ours.
The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
Here is a rule to remember when anything tempts you to feel bitter; not ''This is a misfortune,'' but ''To bear this worthily is good fortune.''
The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing. The main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unforeseen attack.
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
Nothing befalls a man except what is in his nature to endure.
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reasons which today arm you against the present.
I ofter marvel how it is that though each man loves himself beyond all else, he should yet value his own opinion of himself less than that of others.
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