Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
If your brother wrongs you, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is your brother.
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.