The longest-lived and the shortest-lived man, when they come to die, lose one and the same thing.

A man's happiness,-to do the things proper to man.

Nothing befalls any man which he is not fitted to endure.

You may send poetry to the rich; to poor men give substantial presents

It is satisfaction to a man to do the proper works of a man.

Were you to live three thousand years, or even thirty thousand, remember that the sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment; and furthermore, that he can have no other life except the one he loses...

Let it judge that nothing is either bad or good which can happen equally to the bad man and the good. For that which happens equally to him who lives contrary to nature and to him who lives according to nature, is neither according to nature nor contrary to nature.

The mind which is free from passions is a citadel, for man has nothing more secure to which he can fly for refuge and for the future be inexpugnable . He then who has not seen this is an ignorant man: but he who has seen it and does not fly to this refuge is unhappy.

Is any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change? What then is more pleasing or more suitable to the universal nature?