It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.

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.

And have you not received faculties which will enable you to bear all that happens to you? Have you not received greatness of spirit? Have you not received courage? Have you not received endurance?

You lose only the things you have

What is learned without pleasure is forgotten without remorse.