Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

In the same degree in which a man's mind is nearer to freedom from all passion, in the same degree also is it nearer to strength.

Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Tranquility is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change.