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- People’s speech matches their lives
- All vices are at odds with nature
- Devotion to what is right is simple, devotion to what is wrong is complex
- It is essential to make oneself used to putting up with little

- Every person, without exception has someone to whom he confides everything that is confided to himself
- Whatever happens was bound to happen
- One can do nothing better than endure what cannot be cured
- Everything we shall suffer is a strand
- Let me indicate here how men can prove that their words are their own. Let them put their preaching into practice

- All this hurrying from place to place won’t bring you any relief, if you are traveling in the company of your own emotions, followed by your troubles all the way
- If you wish to be stripped of your vices, you must get right away from the examples others set of them
- Move to better company

- Whatever happens is never as serious as rumor makes it out to be
- No one has power over us, when death is within our own power
- If you really want to escape the things that harass you, what you are needing is not to be in a different place, but to be a different person

- Everything hangs on one’s thinking
- A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is
- Philosophy has taught men to worship what is divine, to love what is human

- Whatever can happen at any time can happen today
- I am not afraid of coming to an end, this being the same as never having begun, nor a transition. For I shall never be in confinement quite so cramped anywhere else, as I am here.

- You’ve as many enemies as you’ve slaves
- Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness
- The fact that a person is living for nobody does not automatically mean that he is living for himself
- In our tears we are trying to find means of proving that we feel the loss. We are not being governed by our grief, but parading it

- A sound mind can neither be bought or borrowed
- I wasn’t born for one particular corner, the whole world’s my home country
- The thing you are looking for, the good life, is available everywhere

- Without wisdom, the mind is sick