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

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.

As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new.

The appearance of things to the mind is the standard of every action to man.

The soul is unwillingly deprived of truth.

Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.

All human beings seek the happy life, but many confuse the means - for example, wealth and status - with that life itself. This misguided focus on the means to a good life makes people get further from the happy life. The really worthwhile things are the virtuous activities that make up the happy life, not the external means that may seem to produce it.