There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems

Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a man of virtue by having reason as the consolation of grief.

Don't be prideful with any excellence that is not your own

Fortune is an evil chain to the body, and vice to the soul.

Remember that you are but an actor, acting whatever part the Master has ordained. It may be short or it may be long. If he wishes you to represent a poor man, do so heartily; if a cripple, or a magistrate, or a private man, in each case act your part with honor.

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