For outward show is a wonderful perverter of the reason.

All is as thinking makes it so

You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things you can't control. These things are not asking to be judged by you. Leave them alone.

The one thing worth living for is to keep one's soul pure.

Live with the gods. And he does so who constantly shows them that his soul is satisfied with what is assigned to him.

The happiness of those who want to be popular depends on others; the happiness of those who seek pleasure fluctuates with moods outside their control; but the happiness of the wise grows out of their own free acts.

Prize that which is best in the universe; and this is that which useth everything and ordereth everything.