Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose? Nothing else. Tell me then, you men, do you wish to live in error? We do not. No one who lives in error is free. Do you wish to live in fear? Do you wish to live in sorrow? Do you wish to live in tension? By no means. No one who is in a state of fear or sorrow or tension is free, but whoever is delivered from sorrows or fears or anxieties, he is at the same time also delivered from servitude.

Don't demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do. Accept events as they actually happen. That way, peace is possible.

Nothing is in reality either pleasant or unpleasant by nature but all things become so through habit

Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.

Whoever wants to be free, therefore, let him not want or avoid anything that is up to others. Otherwise he will necessarily be a slave.

Do not try to seem wise to others.

It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance