The soul is unwillingly deprived of truth.
If you see anybody wail and complain, call him a slave, though he be clad in purple.
Men are disturbed not by the things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.
No living being is held by anything so strongly as by its own needs. Whatever therefore appears a hindrance to these, be it brother, or father, or child, or mistress, or friend, is hated, abhorred, execrated.
Everything has two handles,-one by which it may be borne; another by which it cannot.
We do not choose our own parts in life, and have nothing to do with those parts. Our duty is confined to playing them well.