Enough of this wretched life and murmuring and apish tricks. Why art thou disturbed? What is there new in this? What unsettles thee? Is it the form of the thing? Look at it. Or is it the matter? Look at it. But besides these there is nothing. Towards the gods, then, now become at last more simple and better. It is the same whether we examine these things for a hundred years or three.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

A person's life is what their thoughts make it.

Welcome every experience the looms of fate may weave for you.

Neither in writing nor in reading wilt thou be able to lay down rules for others before thou shalt have first learned to obey rules thyself.