The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
First say to yourself what you would be and then do what you have to do.
How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself and in no instance bypass the discriminations of reason? You have been given the principles that you ought to endorse, and you ha...
What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance.
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
It is not events that disturb people, it is their judgements concerning them.
It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous -- even death is terrible only if we fear it.
It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
Do you know that disease and death must needs overtake us no matter what we are doing? ... What do you wish to be doing when it overtakes you? If you have anything better to be doing when you are so...
It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintains it and works it out in his life.
Bear and forbear.
If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone...
Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort.
Only the educated are free.
When you do anything from a clear judgment that it ought to be done, never shrink from being seen to do it, even though the world should misunderstand it; for if you are not acting rightly, shun the a...
All philosophy lies in two words sustain and abstain.
In the long run, every man will pay the penalty for his own misdeeds. The man who remembers this will be angry with no one, indignant with no one, revile no one, blame no one, offend no one, hate no o...