It doesn't hurt me unless I interpret its happening as harmful to me. I can choose not to.

If the gods care not for me and for my children, There is a reason for it.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

And in the case of superior things like stars, we discover a kind of unity in separation. The higher we rise on the scale of being, the easier it is to discern a connection even among things separated by vast distances.

It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil.

...if a man comes to his fortieth year, and has any understanding at all, he has virtually seen - thanks to their similarity - all possible happenings, both past and to come.

Nothing proceeds from nothingness, as also nothing passes away into non-existence.