Meditations
- "You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."
- "The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way."
- "Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking."
- "The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury."
- "If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it."
Disputed
- "You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think."