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.

If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?

Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law.

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.

All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.

One's virtue is all that one truly has, because it is not imperiled by the vicissitudes of fortune.

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.