We ought to flee the friendship of the wicked, and the enmity of the good.

What matters most is what sort of person you are becoming. Wise individuals care only about whom they are today and who they can be tomorrow.

If you hear that someone is speaking ill of you, instead of trying to defend yourself you should say: 'He obviously does not know me very well, since there are so many other faults he could have mentioned.'

I am always content with what happens; for I know that what God chooses is better than what I choose.

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

It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous -- even death is terrible only if we fear it.

Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison.