If Your Heart Is Quite

It Is Not Things In Themselves Which Trouble Us, But Our Opinions Of Things.

Do Not Seek To Bring Things To Pass In Accordance With Your Wishes, But Wish For Them As They Are, And You Will Find Them.

Never Depend On The Admiration Of Others For Self-satisfaction. It Is A Fact Of Life That Other People, Even People Who Love You, Will Not Necessarily Agree With Your Ideas, Understand You Always, Or Share Your Enthusiasms.

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

Exceed Due Measure, And The Most Delightful Things Become The Least Delightful.