The flourishing life cannot be achieved until we moderate our desires and see how superficial and fleeting they are.

Silence is safer than speech.

All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.

Men are not worried by things, but by their ideas about things. When we meet with difficulties, become anxious or troubled, let us not blame others, but rather ourselves. That is: our ideas about things.

If what charms you is nothing but abstract principles, sit down and turn them over quietly in your mind: but never dub yourself a Philosopher.

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

We must ever bear in mind --that apart from the will there is nothing good or bad, and that we must not try to anticipate or to direct events, but merely to accept them with intelligence.