It Is Not My Place In Society

The Origin Of Sorrow Is This: To Wish For Something That Does Not Come To Pass.

Men Are Not Troubled By Things Themselves, But By Their Thoughts About Them

Freedom And Happiness Are Won By Disregarding Things That Lie Beyond Our Control.

Avoid Banquets Which Are Given By Strangers An Ignorant Persons. But If There Is Ever Occasion To Join Them, Let Your Attention Be Carefully Fixed, That You Slip Not Into The Manner Of The Vulgar (the Uninstructed).

If You Would Improve, Submit To Be Considered Wihout Sense And Foolish With Respect To Externals. Wish To Be Considered To Know Nothing; And If You Shall Seem To Someone To Be A Person Of Importance, Distrust Yourself.