"As long as you are a human being, you are a member of a great whole, and you have a part to play. If you play it badly, you will be hissed off the stage; if well, applauded."

"If you wish for nothing, you will be free."

"When you have decided that a thing is good, and you cling to it, and you are not disturbed by it, then you have found your true good."

"Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think more accurately, to be less of a slave to your passions."

"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."