Wish that everything should come about just as it does.
You can be invincible, if you enter into no contest in which it is not in your power to conquer.
Embrace reality. Think about what delights you - the small luxuries on which you depend, the people whom you cherish most. But remember that they have their own distinct character, which is quite a separate matter from how we happen to regard them.
Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.
I have to die. If it is now, well then I die now; if later, then now I will take my lunch, since the hour for lunch has arrived - and dying I will tend to later.