The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
It is a shame for the soul to be first to give way in this life, when thy body does not give way.
The world is mere change, and this life, opinion.
I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me. But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.
Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.
Be content to seem what you really are.