Happiness is no other than soundness and perfection of mind.

Unhappy am I because this has happened to me.- Not so, but happy am I, though this has happened to me, because I continue free from pain, neither crushed by the present nor fearing the future.

Receive wealth or prosperity without arrogance; and be ready to let it go.

It is within our power not to make a judgement about something, and so not disturb our minds; for nothing in itself possesses the power to form our judgements.

To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing - here is the perfection of character.

It were well to die if there be gods, and sad to live if there be none.

What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.