No one who is in a state of fear or sorrow or tension is free, but whosoever is delivered from sorrows or fears or anxieties is at the same time delivered from servitude.

Desire and happiness cannot live together.

What thou avoidest suffering thyself seek not to impose on others.

Be careful whom you associate with. It is human to imitate the habits of those with whom we interact. We inadvertently adopt their interests, their opinions, their values, and their habit of interpreting events.

And have you not received faculties which will enable you to bear all that happens to you? Have you not received greatness of spirit? Have you not received courage? Have you not received endurance?

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

The foolish and the uneducated have little use for freedom. Only the educated are free.