Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.
Everything has two handles,-one by which it may be borne; another by which it cannot.
People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.
Seek not the good in external things;seek it in yourselves.
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
The good or ill of a man lies within his own will.