Some things are up to us [eph' hêmin] and some things are not up to us. Our opinions are up to us, and our impulses, desires, aversions–in short, whatever is our own doing. Our bodies are not up to us, nor are our possessions, our reputations, or our public offices, or, that is, whatever is not our own doing.

If a man is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault, for God made all men to be happy.

God has made all men to be happy.

Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.

If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.

To make anything a habit, do it; to not make it a habit, do not do it; to unmake a habit, do something else in place of it.

We must be afraid of neither poverty nor exile nor imprisonment; of fear itself only should we be afraid.