It is impossible that happiness, and yearning for what is not present, should ever be united.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

Wish that everything should come about just as it does.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.

If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day; then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods.

Don't regard what anyone says of you, for this, after all, is no concern of yours.