There is but one way to tranquility of mind and happiness, and that is to account no external things thine own, but to commit all to God.

When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.

Let silence be your general rule; or say only what is necessary and in few words.

What disturbs people, these are not things, but the judgments relating to things

When men are unhappy, they do not imagine they can ever cease to be so; and when some calamity has fallen on them, they do not see how they can get rid of it. Nevertheless, both arrive; and the gods have ordered it so, in the end men seek it from the gods

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

Be not diverted from your duty by any idle reflections the silly world may make upon you, for their censures are not in your power and should not be at all your concerns.