When forced, as it seems, by your environment to be utterly disquieted, return with all speed into your self, staying in discord no longer than you must. By constant recurrence to the harmony, you will gain more command over it.

Nature in no case cometh short of art, for the arts are copiers of natural forms.

Let thy chief fort and place of defense be a mind free from passions. A stronger place and better fortified than this, hath no man.

Try to live the life of the good man who is more than content with what is allocated to him.

A good disposition is invincible, if it be genuine.

That which has died falls not out of the universe. If it stays here, it also changes here, and is dissolved into its proper parts, which are elements of the universe and of thyself. And these too change, and they murmur not".

How ridiculous and how strange to be surprised at anything which happens in life