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.

This is enough. Do not add, And why were such things made in the world?

Let it judge that nothing is either bad or good which can happen equally to the bad man and the good. For that which happens equally to him who lives contrary to nature and to him who lives according to nature, is neither according to nature nor contrary to nature.

Cultivate these, then, for they are wholly within your power: sincerity and dignity; industriousness; and sobriety. Avoid grumbling, be frugal, considerate, and frank; be temperate in manner and speech; carry yourself with authority.

How easy it is to repel and release every impression which is troublesome and immediately to be tranquil.

Remember this - that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.

A rational nature admits of nothing but what is serviceable to the rest of mankind.