We are not disturbed by what happens to us, but by our thoughts about what happens to us.

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

The good or ill of a man lies within his own will.

Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process.

If you think you control things that are in the control of others, you will lament. You will be disturbed and you will blame both gods and men.

Who are those people by whom you wish to be admired? Are they not these whom you are in the habit of saying that they are mad? What then? Do you wish to be admired by the mad?

It is difficulties that show what men are. For the future, in case of any difficulty, remember that God, like a gymnastic trainer, has pitted you against a rough antagonist. For what end? That you may be an Olympic conqueror; and this cannot be without toil.