Watch yourself as you go about your daily business and later reflect on what you saw, trying to identify the sources of distress in your life and thinking about how to avoid that distress.

Remember that you are an actor in a play, and that the Playwright chooses the manner of it: If he wants you to act a poor man you must act the part with all your powers; and so if your part be a cripple or a magistrate or a plain man. For your business is to act the character that is given you and act it well. The choice of the cast is Another's.

Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.

Consider first the nature of the business in hand; then examine thy own nature, whether thou hast strength to undertake it.

Your master is he who controls that on which you have set your heart or wish to avoid.

Freedom is secured not by the fulfillment of one's desires, but by the removal of desire.

It is my business, to manage carefully and dexterously whatever happens