If you would be well spoken of, learn to be well-spoken; and having learnt to be well- spoken, strive also to be well-doing; so shall you succeed in being well spoken of.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Don't seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you.

Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?

It is not events that disturb the minds of men, but the view they take of them.