Not things, but opinions about things, trouble men.

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

Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.

The essence of good and evil is a certain disposition of the will.

Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.

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

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.