Cowardice, the dread of what will happen.

Who are those people by whom you wish to be admired? Are they not these whom you are in the habit of saying that they are mad? What then? Do you wish to be admired by the mad?

To make anything a habit, do it; to not make it a habit, do not do it; to unmake a habit, do something else in place of it.

What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I was practicing for this, I was training for this.

To get or not to get what we desire can be equally disappointing.

The flourishing life cannot be achieved until we moderate our desires and see how superficial and fleeting they are.

In life our first job is this, to divide and distinguish things into two categories: externals I cannot control, but the choices I make with regard to them I do control. Where will I find good and bad? In me, in my choices.