"What you shun enduring yourself, attempt not to impose on others. You shun slavery- beware enslaving others! If you can endure to do that, one would think you had been once upon a time a slave yoursel…"

"Those proficient praise no one, blame no one, and accuse no one. They say nothing concerning their self as being anybody or knowing anything."

"What, then, is the proper thing to do? To make the best of what is in our power, and take the rest as it naturally happens."

"Suffering arises from trying to control what is uncontrollable, or from neglecting what is within our power."

"If a man is unhappy, this must be due to his own fault, that he has forgotten that all things are in his own power."