"Do not seek to have everything that happens happen as you wish, but wish for everything to happen as it actually does happen, and your life will be serene."

"It is not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters."

"You are a little soul carrying around a corpse, as Epictetus used to say."

"When you are going to meet with any person, and particularly one of those who are considered to be in a superior condition, represent to yourself what Socrates or Zeno would have done in such circumst…"

"It is impossible for a man to begin to learn what he thinks he already knows."