“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.”

“Asia and Europe: tiny corners of the Cosmos. Every sea: a mere drop. Mount Athos: a lump of dirt. The present moment is the smallest point in all eternity. All is microscopic, changeable, disappearing. All things come from that faraway place, either originating directly from that governing part which is common to all, or else following from it as consequences. So even the gaping jaws of the lion, deadly poison, and all harmful things like thorns or an oozing bog are products of that awesome and noble source. Do not imagine these things to be alien to that which you revere, but turn your Reason to the source of all things.”

“Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered."Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the universe loves nothing so much as to change things which are and to make new things like them. For everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.”

“Do what you will. Even if you tear yourself apart, most people will continue doing the same things.”

“How many together with whom I came into the world are already gone out of it.”

“Give up your thirst for books, so that you do not die a grouch.”

“Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?”