There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.

There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation.

Where silence is not allowed, what then is permissible?

How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable finally become, for you, the same.

The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes.

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.