Try not to react merely in the moment. Pull back from the situation. Take a wider view. Compose yourself.

We must be afraid of neither poverty nor exile nor imprisonment; of fear itself only should we be afraid.

To get or not to get what we desire can be equally disappointing.

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

When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it. It is not the things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance. Things and people are not what we wish them to be nor are they what they seem to be. They are what they are.

Some of their faults men readily admit, but others not so readily.

No living being is held by anything so strongly as by its own needs. Whatever therefore appears a hindrance to these, be it brother, or father, or child, or mistress, or friend, is hated, abhorred, execrated.