Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.

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

Freedom and happiness are won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.

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

Never depend on the admiration of others for self-satisfaction. It is a fact of life that other people, even people who love you, will not necessarily agree with your ideas, understand you always, or share your enthusiasms.

Let death and exile, and all other things which appear terrible be daily before your eyes, but chiefly death, and you win never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

When the Idea, of any Pleasure strikes your Imagination... let that time be employed in making a just Computation between, the duration of the Pleasure, and that of the Repentance sure to follow it.