When you have done a good deed that another has had the benefit of, why do you need a third reward-as fools do-praise for having done well or looking for a favor in return.

There is no misfortune, but to bear it nobly is good fortune.

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

How many together with whom I came into the world are already gone out of it.

Nothing befalls a man except what is in his nature to endure.

Receive the gifts of fortune without pride, and part with them without reluctance.

The healthy eye ought to see all visible things and not to say, I wish for green things; for this is the condition of a diseased eye.