Never look for your work in one place and your progress in another.

It is not he who gives abuse that affronts, but the view that we take of it as insulting; so that when one provokes you it is your own opinion which is provoking.

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

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

Some things are up to us [eph' hêmin] and some things are not up to us. Our opinions are up to us, and our impulses, desires, aversions–in short, whatever is our own doing. Our bodies are not up to us, nor are our possessions, our reputations, or our public offices, or, that is, whatever is not our own doing.

What disturbs people's minds are not events but their judgments on events.

At this time is freedom anything but the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.