Lampis the ship owner, on being asked how he acquired his great wealth, replied, My great wealth was acquired with no difficulty, but my small wealth, my first gains, with much labor.

He who is not happy with little will never be happy with much.

We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.

What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.

Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.

Whoever wants to be free, therefore, let him not want or avoid anything that is up to others. Otherwise he will necessarily be a slave.

Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.