Men are not worried by things, but by their ideas about things. When we meet with difficulties, become anxious or troubled, let us not blame others, but rather ourselves. That is: our ideas about things.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature but all things become so through habit

Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.

To adorn our characters by the charm of an amiable nature shows at once a lover of beauty and a lover of man.

It has been ordained that there be summer and winter, abundance and dearth, virtue and vice, and all such opposites for the harmony of the whole, and (Zeus) has given each of us a body, property, and companions.

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.