Think of what you have rather than of what you lack. Of the things you have, select the best and then reflect how eagerly you would have sought them if you did not have them.

People generally despise where they flatter, and cringe to those they would gladly overtop; so that truth and ceremony are two things.

The act of dying is one of the acts of life.

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

Do not be wise in words - be wise in deeds.

Submit to the fate of your own free will.

Am I doing anything? I do it with reference to the good of mankind. Does anything happen to me? I receive it and refer it to the gods, and the source of all things, from which all that happens is derived.