The main thing we were made for is to work with others.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you.

I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me. But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

Always run to the short way; and the short way is the natural: accordingly say and do everything in conformity with the soundest reason. For such a purpose frees a man from trouble, and warfare, and all artifice and ostentatious display.

Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.