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.

To the rational being only the irrational is unendurable, but the rational is endurable.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

I am always content with what happens; for I know that what God chooses is better than what I choose.

Men are not troubled by things themselves, but by their thoughts about them

Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature but all things become so through habit

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