As in walking it is your great care not to run your foot upon a nail, or to tread awry, and strain your leg; so let it be in all the affairs of human life, not to hurt your mind or offend your judgment. And this rule, if observed carefully in all your deportment, will be a mighty security to you in your undertakings.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

What disturbs people's minds are not events but their judgments on events.

To a longer and worse life, a shorter and better is by all means to be preferred.

Men are not worried by things, but by their ideas about things. When we meet with difficulties, become anxious or troubled, let us not blame others, but rather ourselves. That is: our ideas about things.

It is not events that disturb the minds of men, but the view they take of them.

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.