There is no misfortune, but to bear it nobly is good fortune.

Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite; keep reason under its own control.

... Allow yourself a space of quiet, wherein you can add to your knowledge of the Good and learn to curb your restlessness. Guard also against another kind of error: the folly of those who weary their days in much business, but lack any aim on which their whole effort, nay, their whole thought, is focused.

A person's life is what their thoughts make it.

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?

He who does wrong does wrong against himself. He who acts unjustly acts unjustly to himself, because he makes himself bad.

No one can keep you from living as your nature requires. Nothings can happen to you that is not required by Nature.