It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.

It is the part of an uneducated person to blame others where he himself fares ill; to blame himself is the part of one whose education has begun; to blame neither another nor his own self is the part of one whose education is already complete.

It is my business, to manage carefully and dexterously whatever happens

Remember that you are an actor in a play, and that the Playwright chooses the manner of it: If he wants you to act a poor man you must act the part with all your powers; and so if your part be a cripple or a magistrate or a plain man. For your business is to act the character that is given you and act it well. The choice of the cast is Another's.

Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them.

I am not eternity, but a man; a part of the whole, as an hour is of the day.