No man is free who is not master of himself... Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose?

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.

It is not events that disturb the minds of men, but the view they take of them.

No one who is in a state of fear or sorrow or tension is free, but whosoever is delivered from sorrows or fears or anxieties is at the same time delivered from servitude.

Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale; were I a swan, the part of a swan.

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.