The greatest part of what we say and do is really unnecessary. If a man takes this to heart, he will have more leisure and less uneasiness.

Thou seest how few be the things, the which if a man has at his command his life flows gently on and is divine.

It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him.

The man who has a house everywhere has a home nowhere

For a man can lose neither the past nor the future; for how can one take from him that which is not his? So remember these two points: first, that each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle, and that it signifies not whether a man shall look upon the same things for a hundred years or two hundred, or for an infinity of time; second, that the longest lived and the shortest lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.

I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed.

A man does not sin by commission only, but often by omission.

Because a thing is difficult for you, do not therefore suppose it to be beyond mortal power. On the contrary, if anything is possible and proper for man to do, assume that it must fall within your own capacity.

Remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment.