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.'

Adapt yourself to the life you have been given; and truly love the people with whom destiny has surrounded you.

In the same degree in which a man's mind is nearer to freedom from all passion, in the same degree also is it nearer to strength.

Thou sufferest justly: for thou choosest rather to become good to-morrow than to be good to-day.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love ... then make that day count!

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

Every moment think steadily as a Roman and a man to do what thou hast in hand with perfect and simple dignity, and feeling of affection, and freedom, and justice; and to give thyself relief from all other thoughts. And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last, laying aside all carelessness and passionate aversion from the commands of reason, and all hypocrisy, and self-love, and discontent with the portion which has been given to thee.