To a longer and worse life, a shorter and better is by all means to be preferred.
Unremarkable lives are marked by the fear of not looking capable when trying something new.
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.
Seek not the good in external things;seek it in yourselves.
The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.
The good or ill of a man lies within his own will.