The wise realize that some things are within their control, and most things are not. They learn early on to distinguish between what they can and can't regulate.

Don't demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.

Appear to know only this--never to fail nor fall.

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.

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.

Try to enjoy the great festival of life with other men!

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things. Don't wish to be thought to know anything; and even if you appear to be somebody important to others, distrust yourself. For, it is difficult to both keep your faculty of choice in a state conformable to nature, and at the same time acquire external things. But while you are careful about the one, you must of necessity neglect the other