"When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings."

"To receive benefits is to lose liberty."

"If you are grieved about anything external, it is not the thing itself that troubles you, but your judgment about it. And it is in your power to wipe out this judgment at any moment."

"Keep the prospect of death, exile and all such apparent tragedies before you every day – especially death – and you will never have an abject thought, or desire anything to excess."

"It is better to starve to death in a calm and tranquil state than to live in abundance with vexation."