If A Man Is Unhappy, Remember That

What Is It To Be A Philosopher? Is It Not To Be Prepared Against Events?

To Be Getting An Education Means This: To Be Learning What Is Your Own, And What Is Not Your Own.

We Are Not To Lead Events, But To Follow Them.

Let Death And Exile, And All Other Things Which Appear Terrible Be Daily Before Your Eyes, But Chiefly Death, And You Win Never Entertain Any Abject Thought, Nor Too Eagerly Covet Anything.

Freedom And Happiness Come From Understanding - And Working With - Our Limits. Begin At Once A Program Of Self-mastery. Stick With Your Purpose. Do Not Seek External Approval. Do Not Worry About Anything Outside Of Your Control. The Only Things You Command Are Your Thoughts And Actions. We Choose Our Response. Stop Aspiring To Be Anyone Other Than Your Own Best Self: For That Does Fall Within Your Control.