"What would you rather have, a pig that grunts contentedly or a philosopher who complains?"

"If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things."

"Men are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of them."

"It is impossible for a man to begin to learn what he thinks he already knows."

"Some things are in our control and others are not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control are body, prope…"