When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

If you think you control things that are in the control of others, you will lament. You will be disturbed and you will blame both gods and men.

I am not eternity, but a man; a part of the whole, as an hour is of the day.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

When men are unhappy, they do not imagine they can ever cease to be so; and when some calamity has fallen on them, they do not see how they can get rid of it. Nevertheless, both arrive; and the gods have ordered it so, in the end men seek it from the gods

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.