When men are unhappy, they do not imagine they can ever cease to be so; and when some calamity has fallen on them, they do not see how they can get rid of it. Nevertheless, both arrive; and the gods have ordered it so, in the end men seek it from the gods

To live a life of virtue, you have to become consistent, even when it isn't convenient, comfortable, or easy.

He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.

Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man's task.

We are not to lead events, but to follow them.

Don't regard what anyone says of you, for this, after all, is no concern of yours.

Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature but all things become so through habit