"The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts."

"The soul of man does violence to itself, first of all, when it becomes an abscess and, as it were, a tumour on the universe, so far as it can."

"Choose not to be harmed—and you won't feel harmed. Don't feel harmed—and you haven't been."

"The universe is a stream of things, a river of events. Some things are born, others die. Some things are in motion, others at rest. Some things are changing, others are constant. Some things are good,…"

"Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears."