If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.

In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.

In the long run, every man will pay the penalty for this own misdeeds.

Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them.

These are the signs of a wise man: to reprove nobody, to praise nobody, to blame nobody, nor even to speak of himself or his own merits.

Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.

No man is free who is not master of himself.