It's silly to try to escape other people's faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

It's silly to try to escape other people's faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.

If any man should conceive certain things as being really good, such as prudence, temperance, justice, fortitude, he would not after having first conceived these endure to listen to anything which should not be in harmony with what is really good.

Welcome every experience the looms of fate may weave for you.

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.