Quotes

The will of nature may be learned from things upon which we are all agreed.

A man’s master is he who is able to confer or remove whatever that man seeks or shuns.

Never proclaim yourself a philosopher, nor make much talk among the ignorant about your principles, but show them by actions.

When, therefore, anyone provokes you, be assured that it is your own opinion which provokes you.

Upon every accident, remember to turn toward yourself and inquire what faculty you have for its use.

In every affair consider what precedes and what follows, and then undertake it.

Be not elated at any excellence not your own.

Remember that you are an actor in a drama of such sort as the Author chooses—

If you would improve, be content to be thought foolish and dull with regard to externals.

Demand not that events should happen as you wish; but wish them to happen as they do happen, and you will go on well.

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

There are things which are within our power, and there are things which are beyond our power.