"All things are interwoven, and the bond is holy; and there is hardly anything foreign to another; for they have been arranged together, and they constitute the same order."

"The present is the only thing of which a man can be deprived, if it is true that this is all he has and that he cannot lose what he does not possess."

"To expect that your friends will not be false is foolish."

"Or is it the case that all things flow from the one fountain, as all things are parts of one whole? Or is it the case that all things are parts of one whole, and that they all flow from the one founta…"

"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."