Your master is he who controls that on which you have set your heart or wish to avoid.

Act your part with honor.

In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we lose our hold on our lifes purpose.

-….when things seem to have reached that stage, merely say “I won’t play any longer”, and take your departure; but if you stay, stop lamenting.

The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.

Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.

All human beings seek the happy life, but many confuse the means - for example, wealth and status - with that life itself. This misguided focus on the means to a good life makes people get further from the happy life. The really worthwhile things are the virtuous activities that make up the happy life, not the external means that may seem to produce it.