"What then is that which is able to conduct a man? One thing and only one, philosophy. But this consists in keeping the demon within a man free from violence and unharmed, superior to pains and pleasur…"

"Consider the life of a man of forty, and the life of a man of ten thousand years; what difference is there? For both the past is gone, and the future is uncertain."

"If you are able, correct by teaching; if not, by tolerating."

"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart."

"Do not waste the remainder of your life in speculating about your neighbors, unless with a view to some common good. For to speculate about what your neighbor is doing, and why, and what he is saying,…"