There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

Remember that very little is needed to make a happy life.

Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith.

Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and ay, 'Why were things of this sort ever brought into the world?'

If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it.

No one loses any other life than the one he now lives, nor does one live any other life than that which he will lose.

Not to waste time on nonsense. Not to be taken in by conjurors and hoodoo artists with their talk about incantations and exorcism and all the rest of it. Not to be obsessed with quail-fighting or other crazes like that.