"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature."
"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."
"Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?"
"If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception and ignorance."
"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."
"You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say."