When you have decided that a thing ought to be done and are doing it, never avoid bein seen doing it, though many shall form an unfavorable opinion about it. For if it is not right to do it, avoid doing the thing; but if it is right, why are you afraid of those who shall find fault wrongly?

What disturbs and alarms man are not the things, but his opinions and fancies about the things.

Wisdom means understanding without any doubt that circumstances do not rise to meet our expectations. Events happen as they may. People behave as they will.

The wise realize that some things are within their control, and most things are not. They learn early on to distinguish between what they can and can't regulate.

No living being is held by anything so strongly as by its own needs. Whatever therefore appears a hindrance to these, be it brother, or father, or child, or mistress, or friend, is hated, abhorred, execrated.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.