"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…"

"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."

"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."

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

"Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or still uncertain. Short is the life of man, and short is the span of his plea…"