If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

What prison? Where he is already: for he is there against his will; and wherever a man is against his will, that to him is a prison.

If a man would pursue Philosophy, his first task is to throw away conceit. For it is impossible for a man to begin to learn what he has a conceit that he already knows.

For I am not Eternity, but a human being; a part of the whole, as an hour is part of the day. I must come like the hour, and like the hour must pass!

Try to enjoy the great festival of life.

Everything has two handles, one by which it may be borne, the other by which it may not.

Thou shalt not blame or flatter any.

What wouldst thou be found doing when overtaken by Death? If I might choose, I would be found doing some deed of true humanity, of wide import, beneficent and noble. But if I may not be found engaged in aught so lofty, let me hope at least for this – what none may hinder, what is surely in my power – that I may be found raising up in myself that which had fallen; learning to deal more wisely with the things of sense; working out my own tranquillity, and thus rendering that which is its due to every relation of life….

Let silence be your general rule; or say only what is necessary and in few words.

It is hard to combine and unite these two qualities, the carefulness of one who is affected by circumstances, and the intrepidity of one who heeds them not. But it is not impossible: else were happiness also impossible.