"Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart."

"To say that 'men cannot live without women' is to confess that men are not self-sufficient, and that their well-being is dependent on something outside themselves."

"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."

"To love only what happens, what was spun for you. What could be more appropriate?"

"Do not waste the remainder of thy life in thoughts about others, when thou dost not refer thy thoughts to some object of common utility. For thou wilt lose thy opportunity for doing anything else."