If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.
If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.
Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them.
From now on practice saying to everything that appears unpleasant: You are merely an appearance and NOT what you appear to be.
First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.
It is not events that disturb the minds of men, but the view they take of them.