You are but an appearance, and not absolutely the thing you appear to be.

It is better to advise than upbraid, for the one corrects the erring; the other only convicts them.

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

We can't control the impressions others form about us, and the effort to do so only debases our character.

Whoever then wishes to be free, let him neither wish for anything nor avoid anything which depends on others: if he does not observe this rule, he must be a slave.

Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature but all things become so through habit

When the Idea, of any Pleasure strikes your Imagination... let that time be employed in making a just Computation between, the duration of the Pleasure, and that of the Repentance sure to follow it.