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

"Control your perceptions. Direct your actions properly. Accept what is outside your control. Willingly do what needs to be done."

"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…"

"It is better to starve to death in freedom from grief and fear, than to live in plenty with perturbation."

"Good and evil, in his view, come only from those things that progress from our will."