Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.