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For any particular thing, ask: What is it in itself? What is its nature?
Whatever may happen to thee, it was prepared for thee from all eternity.
When pain is unbearable it destroys us; when it does not it is bearable.
Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith.
He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
Men exist for each other. Then either improve them, or put up with them.
The lot assigned to every man is suited to him, and suits him to itself.
If souls continue to exist, how does the air contain them from eternity?
Men are born for each other's sake, so either teach people or endure them
Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.
Be satisfied with your business, and learn to love what you were bred to.
Short is the little which remains to thee of life. Live as on a mountain.
The man who doesn't know what the universe is doesn't know where he lives.
Take away the complaint, 'I have been harmed,' and the harm is taken away.
You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.
If the gods care not for me and for my children, There is a reason for it.
Receive wealth or prosperity without arrogance; and be ready to let it go.
Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.
Find time still to be learning somewhat good, and give up being desultory.
A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all - that is myself.
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.
I am an old man and have had many worries, but most have never come to pass.
Does a man shrink from change? Why, what can come into being save by change?
When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man's life.
I, who have never willfully pained another, have no business to pain myself.
How many together with whom I came into the world are already gone out of it.
It is a shameful thing for the soul to faint while the body still perseveres.
The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything thrown into it.
Look deep into the hearts of men, and see what delights and disgusts the wise.
Never act without purpose and resolve, or without the means to finish the job.
In an expression of true gratitude, sadness is conspicuous only by its absence
The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.
Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing.
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
Practice really hearing what people say. Do your best to get inside their mind.
Withdraw to the untroubled quietude deep within the soul, and refresh yourself.
Body. Soul. Mind. Sensations: the body. Desires: the soul. Reasoning: the mind.
Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.
Everything is ephemeral, both that which remembers and that which is remembered.
No form of nature is inferior to art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms.
Remind oneself continually of one of those who practiced virtue in days gone by.
How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life
If I and my two children cannot move the gods, the gods must have their reasons.
Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle...
Nature in no case cometh short of art, for the arts are copiers of natural forms.
Bear in mind that the measure of a man is the worth of the things he cares about.
The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
Nothing proceeds from nothingness, as also nothing passes away into non-existence.
Man must be arched and buttressed from within, else the temple wavers to the dust.