At this time is freedom anything but the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

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

Wish that everything should come about just as it does.

When we name things correctly, we comprehend them correctly, without adding information or judgements that aren't there. Does someone bathe quickly? Don't say be bathes poorly, but quickly. Name the situation as it is, don't filter it through your judgments. Give your assent only to that which is actually true.

An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself.

Don't seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you.

The materials are indifferent, but the use we make of them is not a matter of indifference.