Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

If any man has done wrong, the harm is his own. But perhaps he has not done wrong.

God overrules all mutinous accidents, brings them under His laws of fate, and makes them all serviceable to His purpose.

Enough of this wretched life and murmuring and apish tricks. Why art thou disturbed? What is there new in this? What unsettles thee? Is it the form of the thing? Look at it. Or is it the matter? Look at it. But besides these there is nothing. Towards the gods, then, now become at last more simple and better. It is the same whether we examine these things for a hundred years or three.

Purge your mind of all aimless and idle thoughts, especially those that pry into the affairs of others or wish them ill.

Not to waste time on nonsense. Not to be taken in by conjurors and hoodoo artists with their talk about incantations and exorcism and all the rest of it. Not to be obsessed with quail-fighting or other crazes like that.