This is the chief thing: be not perturbed, for all things are according to the nature of the universal.

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us.

The best sort of revenue is not to be like him who did the injury.

A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark.

Everything that happens, happens as it should.