In Order To Please Others, We Loose

Men Are Not Afraid Of Things, But Of How They View Them.

Some Things Are In Our Control And Others Not. Things In Our Control Are Opinion, Pursuit, Desire, Aversion, And, In A Word, Whatever Are Our Own Actions. Things Not In Our Control Are Body, Property, Reputation, Command, And, In One Word, Whatever Are Not Our Own Actions.

In A Word, Neither Death, Nor Exile, Nor Pain, Nor Anything Of This Kind Is The Real Cause Of Our Doing Or Not Doing Any Action, But Our Inward Opinions And Principles.

Authentic Happiness Is Always Independent Of External Conditions.

In Every Affair Consider What Precedes And What Follows, And Then Undertake It