Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control are body, property, reputation, command, and, in one word, whatever are not our own actions.

From now on practice saying to everything that appears unpleasant: You are merely an appearance and NOT what you appear to be.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

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

We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.

When any person treats you ill or speaks ill of you, remember that he does this or says this because he thinks it is his duty. It is not possible, then, for him to follow that which seems right to you, but that which seems right to himself.

If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know nothing; and if you shall seem to someone to be a person of importance, distrust yourself.