Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them.
In theory there is nothing to hinder our following what we are taught;but in life there are many things to draw us aside.
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
You are but an appearance, and not absolutely the thing you appear to be.
What disturbs people's minds are not events but their judgments on events.
It has been ordained that there be summer and winter, abundance and dearth, virtue and vice, and all such opposites for the harmony of the whole, and (Zeus) has given each of us a body, property, and companions.