"Do not disturb yourself by picturing your entire life. Do not let your thoughts range over all the various troubles which you have met and will meet, but in every present case, ask yourself, 'What is …"

"All things are interwoven, and the bond is holy; and there is hardly anything foreign to another; for they have been arranged together, and they constitute the same order."

"The duration of a man's life is but a point; the substance of it ever flowing, the sense obscure, the course of the body headlong, the soul fickle, fortune uncertain, and fame doubtful."

"What is evil? It is that which you have seen many times. And when you are about to be angry with anyone, remember that man is not evil, but only acts in error."

"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it."