To adorn our characters by the charm of an amiable nature shows at once a lover of beauty and a lover of man.

Getting distracted by trifles is the easiest thing in the world… Focus on your main duty

These are the signs of a wise man: to reprove nobody, to praise nobody, to blame nobody, nor even to speak of himself or his own merits.

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

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.

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

Have the wisdom to know what cannot be changed, and the strength to change what can.