Difficulty shows what men are. Therefore when a difficulty falls upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a rough young man. Why? So that you may become an Olympic conqueror; but it is not accomplished without sweat.

Try to enjoy the great festival of life with other men!

Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power.

Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control are body, property, reputation, command, and, in one word, whatever are not our own actions.

The soul is unwillingly deprived of truth.

Nothing great comes into being all at once.

We ought to flee the friendship of the wicked, and the enmity of the good.