Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
Merupakan tanda sifat yang membosankan untuk menyibukkan diri secara mendalam dalam hal-hal yang menyangkut tubuh; misalnya, terlalu sibuk tentang olahraga, tentang makan dan minum, tentang menenangkan diri, tentang hubungan seksual.
You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.
Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.
Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
If you wish to be a writer, write.
Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.
Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?
Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.
No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Keyakinan yang ketat, takdir adalah jenis perbudakan terburuk; di sisi lain ada penghiburan dalam pikiran bahwa Tuhan akan tergerak oleh doa-doa kita.
Kita memiliki dua telinga dan satu mulut, karena itu kita bisa mendengarkan dua kali lebih banyak daripada berbicara.
All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.