Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
The soul is unwillingly deprived of truth.
Don’t consent to be hurt and you won’t be hurt – this is a choice over which you have control
We ought to flee the friendship of the wicked, and the enmity of the good.
All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.
Act well your given part; the choice rests not with you.