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

At this time is freedom anything but the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.

In life our first job is this, to divide and distinguish things into two categories: externals I cannot control, but the choices I make with regard to them I do control. Where will I find good and bad? In me, in my choices.

If your heart is quite set upon a crown, make and put on one of roses, for it will make the prettier appearance.

You ought to choose both physician and friend, not the most agreeable, but the most useful.

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?