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

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

We are not to lead events, but to follow them.

Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle.

Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.

I have to die. If it is now, well then I die now; if later, then now I will take my lunch, since the hour for lunch has arrived - and dying I will tend to later.