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

Lampis the ship owner, on being asked how he acquired his great wealth, replied, My great wealth was acquired with no difficulty, but my small wealth, my first gains, with much labor.

Whatever you would make habitual, practice it; and if you would not make a thing habitual, do not practice it, but accustom yourself to something else.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should?

What hurts this person is not the occurrence itself, for another person might not feel oppressed by this situation at all. What is hurting this person is the response he or she has uncritically adopted. It is not a demonstration of kindness or friendship to the people we care about to join them in indulging in wrongheaded, negative feelings.

Tentative efforts lead to tentative outcome.