"If a man is unhappy, this must be due to himself, that is, to his own false choices."

"An uninstructed person will lay the fault of his own bad condition upon others. To begin to be instructed, he will lay the fault on himself. When he is fully instructed, he will blame neither others n…"

"If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase."

"Remember that if you are doing something for your own good, you must not be ashamed of it, even if the mob is going to misinterpret it."

"Some things are in our control and others are not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control are body, prope…"