It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
Don't seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all will be well with you.
If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.
Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can, but does not want to.
To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.
Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them.
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
Difficulty shows what men are.
Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
Whoever is going to listen to the philosophers needs a considerable practice in listening.
It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free.
It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
On the occasion of every accident that befalls you, remember to turn to yourself and inquire what power you have for turning it to use.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Everyone's life is a warfare, and that long and various.
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.
Don't live by your own rules, but in harmony with nature.
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but the way people think things are.
