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

If a person had delivered up your body to some passer-by, you would certainly be angry. And do you feel no shame in delivering up your own mind to any reviler, to be disconcerted and confounded?

It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintains it and works it out in his life.

Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control. Stop aspiring to be anyone other than your own best self: for that does fall within your control.

Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions.

Living a good life leads to enduring happiness. Goodness in and of itself is the practice AND the reward.

Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process.