For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them
A woman is not beautiful when her ankle or arm wins compliments, but when her total appearance diverts admiration from the individual parts of her body.
The road is long if one proceeds by way of precepts but short and effectual if by way of personal example.
What man can you show me who places any value on his time, who reckons the worth of each day, who understands that he is dying daily? For we are mistaken when we look forward to death; the major portion of death has already passed, Whatever years be ...
However much you possess there's someone else who has more, and you'll be fancying yourself to be short of things you need to exact extent to which you lag behind him.
And do you know why we have not the power to attain this Stoic ideal? It is because we refuse to believe in our power. Nay, of a surety, there is something else which plays a part: it is because we are in love with our vices; we uphold them and prefe...
To expect punishment is to suffer it; and to earn it is to expect it.
For fate the willing leads, the unwilling drags along.
There is but one chain holding us in fetters, and that is our love of life.
Because thou writest me often, I thank thee ... Never do I receive a letter from thee, but immediately we are together.
Possession of a friend should be with the spirit: the spirit's never absent: it sees daily whoever it likes.
Preserve a sense of proportion in your attitude to everything that pleases you, and make the most of them while they are at their best.
A guilty person sometimes has the luck to escape detection, but never to feel sure of it.
Words need to be sown like seeds. No matter how tiny a seed may be, when in lands in the right sort of ground it unfolds its strength and from being minute expands and grows to a massive size.
To expel hunger and thirst there is no necessity of sitting in a palace and submitting to the supercilious brow and contumelious favour of the rich and great there is no necessity of sailing upon the deep or of following the camp What nature wants is...
Reason shows us there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not because we needed them but because we had them.
Each day acquire something that will fortify you against poverty, against death, indeed against other misfortunes as well; and after you have run over many thoughts, select one to be thoroughly digested that day
