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.
When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.