It is not a demonstration of kindness or friendship to the people we care about to join them in indulging in wrongheaded, negative feelings. We do a better service to ourselves and others by remaining detached and avoiding melodramatic reactions.

It is the part of an uneducated person to blame others where he himself fares ill; to blame himself is the part of one whose education has begun; to blame neither another nor his own self is the part of one whose education is already complete.

When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things.

Opportunity beckons more surely when misfortune comes upon a person than it ever does when that person is riding the crest of a wave of success. It sharpens a person's wits, if that person will let it, enabling him or her to see more clearly and evaluate situations with a more knowledgeable judgment.

You ought to choose both physician and friend, not the most agreeable, but the most useful.

It is not so much what happens to you as how you think about what happens." Epictetus