It is better to advise than upbraid, for the one corrects the erring; the other only convicts them.

When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?

Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not. It is only after you have faced up to this fundamental rule and learned to distinguish between what you can and can't control that inner tranquility and outer effectiveness become possible.

It is a mark of a mean capacity to spend much time on the things which concern the body, such as much exercise, much eating, much drinking, much easing of the body, much copulation. But these things should be done as subordinate things: and let all your care be directed to the mind.

Don't be prideful with any excellence that is not your own

Don't regard what anyone says of you, for this, after all, is no concern of yours.

Don't seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you.