A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.
Everything hangs on one’s thinking.
The place one’s in, though, doesn’t make any contribution to peace of mind: it’s the spirit that makes everything agreeable to oneself.
What’s the good of dragging up sufferings which are over, of being unhappy now just because you were then.
There is nothing the wise man does reluctantly.
Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.
A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.
For greed, all nature is too little.
You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.
Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature.
We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them.
Luck never made a man wise.
May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?
Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.
Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so shall I choose my death when I am about to depart from life.
Death is a punishment to some, to others a gift and to many a favour.
Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse.