He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate, and set proud death beneath his feet, can look fortune in the face, unbending both to good and bad; his countenance unconquered.

Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?

Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.

Wretched men cringe before tyrants who have no power, the victims of their trivial hopes and fears. They do not realise that anger is hopeless, fear is pointless and desire all a delusion. He whose heart is fickle is not his own master, has thrown away his shield, deserted his post, and he forges the links of the chain that holds him.

So nothing is ever good or bad unless you think it so, and vice versa. All luck is good luck to the man who bears it with equanimity.

He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy.

A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.