People seek retreats in the country, by the sea, in the mountains — but you can retire into yourself whenever you choose.

Begin each day by telling yourself: today I shall meet with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness.

The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.

Everything depends on your judgment, and that judgment rests with you.

It is the quality of your life that matters, not its length.

-- Seneca

It is hard to retain what you learn unless you practice it.

-- Seneca

It is the task of one rightly oriented toward others to draw the circles in toward the centre.

-- Hierocles

Philosophy is nothing other than the pursuit of nobility and goodness.

-- Gaius Musonius Rufus

It is not learning that makes people good, but practice.

-- Gaius Musonius Rufus

The knowledge and contemplation of nature is somehow defective and incomplete unless action follows.

-- Panaetius