You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don't be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit.

No living being is held by anything so strongly as its own needs.

Let death and exile, and all other things which appear terrible be daily before your eyes, but chiefly death, and you win never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.

If you would be well spoken of, learn to be well-spoken; and having learnt to be well- spoken, strive also to be well-doing; so shall you succeed in being well spoken of.

Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not.

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