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

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

Sickness is a hindrance to the body, but not to your ability to choose, unless that is your choice. Lameness is a hindrance to the leg, but not to your ability to choose. Say this to yourself with regard to everything that happens, then you will see such obstacles as hindrances to something else, but not to yourself.

Don't demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.

It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should?

Whoever then wishes to be free, let him neither wish for anything nor avoid anything which depends on others: if he does not observe this rule, he must be a slave.

Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.