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.

Exceed due measure, and the most delightful things become the least delightful.

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.

Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but rather the fear of death?

Everything has two handles; the one soft and manageable, the other such as will not endure to be touched. If then your brother do you an injury, do not take it by the hot hard handle, by representing to yourself all the aggravating circumstances of the fact; but look rather on the soft side, and extenuate it as much as is possible, by considering the nearness of the relation, and the long friendship and familiarity between you--obligations to kindness which a single provocation ought not to dissolve. And thus you will take the accident by its manageable handle.

If you think you control things that are in the control of others, you will lament. You will be disturbed and you will blame both gods and men.