"Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens."

"For desire, suspend it completely for now. Because if you desire something outside your control, you are bound to be disappointed; and even things we do control, which under other circumstances would …"

"The essence of philosophy is to put up with things."

"Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Live free and flourish."

"Show me a man who is sick and happy, in danger and happy, dying and happy, exiled and happy, disgraced and happy: show him to me, for the sake of the gods! I long to see a Stoic."