Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.

Let silence be your general rule; or say only what is necessary and in few words.

Crows pick out the eyes of the dead, when the dead have no longer need of them; but flatterers mar the soul of the living, and her eyes they blind.

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.

If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance.