Contentment, as it is a short road and pleasant, has great delight and little trouble.

Freedom isn't the right or ability to do whatever you please. Freedom comes from understanding the limits of our own power and the inherent limits set in place by nature. By accepting life's limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, you become truly free.

Don't be prideful with any excellence that is not your own

If you would be well spoken of, learn to be well-spoken; and having learnt to be well- spoken, strive also to be well-doing; so shall you succeed in being well spoken of.

When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it. It is not the things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance. Things and people are not what we wish them to be nor are they what they seem to be. They are what they are.

What is it that every man seeks? To be secure, to be happy, to do what he pleases without restraint and without compulsion.

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.