Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems
Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?
Act well your given part; the choice rests not with you.
You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will.
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
Two principles we should always have ready — that there is nothing good or evil save in the will; and that we are not to lead events, but to follow them.