"If you want to be rich, do not heap up riches, but diminish your desires."

"Sickness is an impediment to the body, but not to the will, unless the will itself chooses. Lameness is an impediment to the leg, but not to the will. And this you should say on every occasion: for in…"

"What, then, is the fruit of these doctrines? It is the same as that of a vine: leaves, then a blossom, then a ripe cluster. So here, first an appearance, then an impulse, then an act. And the fruit is…"

"The more we value things outside our control, the less control we have."

"Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire."