Status Updates From Von der Gelassenheit

"....let us learn to increase our continence, to set bounds to our pride, to assuage our anger, to look upon poverty without prejudice, to practise thrift, albeit many are ashamed to do so, to apply cheap remedies to the wants of nature, to keep all undisciplined hopes and aspirations as it were under lock and key, and to make it our business to get our riches from ourselves and not from Fortune alone..."

"As soon as you have
devoted yourself to philosophy, you will have overcome all disgust at life:
you will not wish for darkness because you are weary of the light, nor will
you be a trouble to yourself and useless to others: you will acquire many
friends, and all the best men will be attracted towards you: for virtue, in
however obscure a position, cannot be hidden, but gives signs of its presence...."

Seneca says:-
"No one," I say, "that will give me no compensation worth such a loss shall ever rob me of a day. Let my mind be contained within itself and improve itself: let it take no part with other men's affairs, and do nothing which depends on the approval of others: let me enjoy a tranquility undisturbed by either public or private troubles."