You may fetter my leg, but Zeus himself cannot get the better of my free will.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them.
If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated.
Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.