Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

Marcus Aurelius

The first step: Don't be anxious. Nature controls it all.

Marcus Aurelius

Now, of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest, as the means that accommodates human life with a soft and easy tranquility, and gives us a pure and pleasant taste of living, without which all other pleasure would be extinct.

Michel de Montaigne

Effectiveness begins with elimination. Choose your ignorances as carefully as your interests.

The Stoic Emperor

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

Seneca

For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.

Marcus Aurelius