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.

To be getting an education means this: to be learning what is your own, and what is not your own.

Each man's life is a kind of campaign, and a long and complicated one at that. You have to maintain the character of a soldier, and do each separate act at the bidding of the General.

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

Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.

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

Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process.