“The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.”

“The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure....you are above everything distressing.”

“The less the mind understands and the more things it perceives, the greater its power of feigning is; and the more things it understands, the more that power is diminished.”

“No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.”

“None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.”

“In proportion as we endeavor to live according to the guidance of reason, shall we strive as much as possible to depend less on hope, to liberate ourselves from fear, to rule fortune, and to direct our actions by the sure counsels of reason.”

“Those who know the true use of money, and regulate the measure of wealth according to their needs, live contented with few things.”