No matter where you find yourself, comport yourself as if you were a distinguished person.

It is not so much what happens to you as how you think about what happens." Epictetus

Whoever then wishes to be free, let him neither wish for anything nor avoid anything which depends on others: if he does not observe this rule, he must be a slave.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

And have you not received faculties which will enable you to bear all that happens to you? Have you not received greatness of spirit? Have you not received courage? Have you not received endurance?

The good or ill of a man lies within his own will.

When the Idea, of any Pleasure strikes your Imagination... let that time be employed in making a just Computation between, the duration of the Pleasure, and that of the Repentance sure to follow it.