Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

Never say of anything I have lost it, only say that I have given it back.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

Whoever then wishes to be free, let him neither wish for anything nor avoid anything which depends on others: if he does not observe this rule, he must be a slave.

To get or not to get what we desire can be equally disappointing.

Whatever you would make habitual, practice it; and if you would not make a thing habitual, do not practice it, but accustom yourself to something else.

It is not the events but our viewpoint toward events that is the determining factor. We ought to be more concerned about removing wrong thoughts from the mind than removing tumors and abscesses from the body.