"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present."

"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."

"He who is afraid of death is afraid of loss of sensation, or of a different kind of sensation. But if thou shalt have no sensation, neither wilt thou feel any harm; and if thou shalt acquire another k…"

"Everything that happens is either endurable or not. If it's endurable, then endure it. Stop complaining. If it's not endurable, then stop complaining. Your destruction will mean its end."

"Even in a palace, life can be lived well."