Love only what befalls you and is spun for you by fate.

The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.

As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion.

Turn thy thoughts now to the consideration of thy life, thy life as a child, as a youth, thy manhood, thy old age, for in these also every change was a death. Is this anything to fear?

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.

Because your own strength is unequal to a task, do not assume it is beyond the powers of man.

The happiness and unhappiness of the rational, social animal depends not on what he feels but on what he does; just as his virtue and vice consist not in feeling but in doing.