"Look well into thyself there is a source which will always spring up if thou wilt always search there."

"Your life is what your thoughts make it."

"The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it."

"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."

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

"Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good."

"What need of prompt or hint when it is open to yourself to discern what needs to be done - and, if you can see your way, to follow it with kind but undeviating intent. If you cannot see the way, hold back and consult your best advisors. if some other factors obstruct this advice, proceed on your present resources, but with cautious deliberations, keeping always to what seems just. Justice is the best aim, as any failure is in fact a failure of justice.A man following reason in all things combines relaxation with initiative, spark with composure."

"You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say."

"From the philosopher Catulus, never to be dismissive of a friend's accusation, even if it seems unreasonable, but to make every effort to restore the relationship to its normal condition."

"The one thing worth living for is to keep one's soul pure."

"The world is mere change, and this life, opinion."

"Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for something while you live and it is in your power."

"The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious."

"It is a ridiculous thing for a man not to fly from his own badness, which is indeed possible, but to fly from other men's badness, which is impossible."

"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 of your anger, and it will already be gone. How do you let go? By realizing that such actions are not shameful to you."

"A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires."

"The act of dying is one of the acts of life."

"Men exist for the sake of one another."

"To live happily is an inward power of the soul."

"The universe is flux, life is opinion."

"Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?"

"Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time."

"If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception and ignorance."

"Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved."

"Look well into thyself, there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look."

"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 best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury."

"A man should be upright, not be kept upright."

"Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig."

"The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time."

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

"Anger cannot be dishonest."

"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."

"III. I have often wondered how it should come to pass, that every man loving himself best, should more regard other men's opinions concerning himself than his own. For if any God or grave master standing by, should command any of us to think nothing by himself but what he should presently speak out; no man were able to endure it, though but for one day. Thus do we fear more what our neighbours will think of us, than what we ourselves."

"Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul."

"It is not fit that I should give myself pain, for I have never intentionally given pain even to another."

"The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it."

"Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one."

"Death smiles at us all, all we can do is smile back."

"If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it."

"Without a purpose nothing should be done."

"How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks."

"It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you but ever that of the present alone. Even this burden too can be lessened if you confine it strictly to its own limits."

"Nothing befalls a man except what is in his nature to endure."

"And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last."

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

"For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason."

"Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life."

"There's nothing more insufferable than people who boast about their own humility."

"Do not be ashamed of help."