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

You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.

Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.

Very little is needed to make a happy life.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear.