It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.

When your thoughts, words, and deeds form a seamless fabric, you streamline your efforts and thus eliminate worry and dread.

Never depend on the admiration of others for self-satisfaction. It is a fact of life that other people, even people who love you, will not necessarily agree with your ideas, understand you always, or share your enthusiasms.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

When our friends are present we ought to treat them well; and when they are absent, to speak of them well.

It has been ordained that there be summer and winter, abundance and dearth, virtue and vice, and all such opposites for the harmony of the whole, and (Zeus) has given each of us a body, property, and companions.